TATE BRITAIN PRESENTS 'MONOCHROME TILL RECEIPT (WHITE)' BY CEAL FLOYER

MODERN ART ENTHUSIASTS MAY WANT TO CONSIDER A TRIP TO TATE BRITAIN IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WHERE A RATHER UNUSUAL PIECE OF ART IS BEING PRESENTED IN A NEW EXHIBITION, 'MONOCHROME TILL RECEIPT (WHITE)' BY CEAL FLOYER IS JUST WHAT IT SAYS - A TILL RECEIPT FROM A LOCAL SUPERMARKET. PAKISTANI-BORN FLOYER, 41, WHO GRADUATED FROM GOLDSMITH'S ART COLLEGE IN LONDON IN 1994, DESCRIBES THE BRILLIANT WORK AS A MODERN STILL LIFE WHERE OBJECTS ARE IMAGINED RATHER THAN SHOWN. THE RECEIPT LISTS OVER 40 OBJECTS, ALL OF WHICH ARE WHITE, INCLUDING BOIL-IN-THE-BAG RICE, AND ANDREX TOILET ROLL. DESPITE THE ESTIMATED £30,000 PRICE TAG TO THE MUSEUM, THE PIECE COMES WITH A LIST OF INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE ARTIST, STATING THAT A NEW RECEIPT MUST BE USED EVERY TIME IT IS SHOWN. BECAUSE SHE IS BASED IN NOW GERMANY, THE LATEST SHOPPING TRIP WAS LEFT TO EXHIBITION CURATOR ANDREW WILSON, WHO WAS SIMPLY TOLD TO BASE IT ON THE ORIGINAL LIST, NOW ARCHIVED BY THE TATE. HE EXPLAINED: "TILL RECEIPTS ARE LIGHT SENSITIVE AND FALL APART, SO THEY HAVE TO BE REPLACED. ALSO IT IS FIXED TO THE WALL, SO EACH TIME IT IS TAKEN DOWN, IT IS RUINED." HE HAS CALLED THE PIECE 'AN IMAGINATIVE LEAP OF FAITH FROM THE DAILY DRUDGE OF GOING TO THE SUPERMARKET TO THE IDEA OF THE DOMESTIC STILL LIFE PAINTING, BUT ALSO WITH THE SUPPOSED PURITY OF MODERNIST MONOCHROME ABSTRACT PAINTING.'
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