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From: art reviews Category: Art Date: 23 August 2006 Time: 02:01 PM Review: http://www.hayward.org.uk/britishartshow6/ I shall quote from their own information to illustrate the sheer stupidity of art now. The terrible bullshit and the orthodoxy that art may only ever say something ambiguous, indirect, and most importantly uncriticisable. Everthing is itself but not. A border. Sounds good but actually means it's all nill null nihilisting zero nothingness negation. The edge of an empty space. I saw the show and it is as dead as a dodo, a student degree show mash up of feeble unoriginal junk where the only credibility anything has, is in its pale reference to other better real art. The quotes: Tonico Lemos Aud amkes abstract and figarative drawings and sculpture.. Claire Barclays sculptures combine industrially produced elements materials with hand crafted elements... Anna Barriball explores the interface... Ergin Cavusoglu ..explores the borders between the public and private, the visible and invisible, the legitiiamte and contraband. Enrico David's practice focuses on the thin threshhold that separates art from craft. Chris Evans works in the realm where patronage meets art. Siobahn Hapaskas sculptures often hover between abstraction and hyperreal figuration. Gareth Jones makes deceptively simple.... Heather and Ivan Morrisons work blends factual and fiction... I cant be bothered to go on typing. You get the idea. No one fucking says anything direct. No one has anything to say. No one stands up for their love or passion. Everyone is a spectator humming and hahing and making art school art that only means something in art school studios.