‘Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at The Barbican

The Barbican’s latest show opens the doors to artists’ cabinets of curiosities: ‘Magnificent Obsessions.

The Artist as Collector’, the new show at London’s Barbican Centre, is mostly about artists’ stuff, their personal collections. There are a few pieces by the artists thrown in, to offer context you suppose, but mostly it is a show about stuff.

With the Stuffocation-led anti-stuff movement in full swing, there was hope that the show might prove a rousing defence of stuff: the collection of stuff, stuff as inspirational object, as biographical detail. The fear was that this would be a show full of kitsch ceramics, taxidermy and African masks, the cliched keepsakes of the 20th century creative mind (most of the artists featured here are 20th century, even if they are still working).

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