{"id":1841,"date":"2013-07-30T11:36:03","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T10:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:37:46","slug":"art-stuff-on-a-train-13-minimum-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1841","title":{"rendered":"ART STUFF on a train # 13: \u2018Minimum Values\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most days art Critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadwebsite.com\/2013\/07\/30\/art-stuff-on-a-train-13-minimum-values\/\">Paul Carey-Kent<\/a> spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White Cube\u2019s Mason\u2019s Yard summer show includes six of <strong>Martin John Callanan\u2019s<\/strong> striking series <strong>\u2018The Fundamental Units\u2019<\/strong>. Callanan uses thousands of exposures via a 3D optical microscope at the National Physical Laboratory to achieve intensely detailed (400 million pixels) images of the lowest denomination coins, here printed at over 50 times life-size. This elevation of the near-worthless reveals the construction and traces of circulation invisible to the naked eye. It also has a mournful aspect, as many of the lowest value coins (Callanan has captured 16 of the 166 currently in use) will doubtless be withdrawn from circulation soon enough. As you can see at www.greyisgood.eu, Callanan has good form for obsessive projects, such as taking 2,000 photographs of floors in important buildings with restricted public access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018The Fundamental Units\u2019<\/strong> reminded me of a similarly-sourced but psychologically contrasting series: <strong>Moyra Davey\u2019s<\/strong> late 80s series of 100 <strong>\u2018Copperheads\u2019<\/strong>, which concentrate on one coin \u2013 the US one cent \u2013 to show the range of scratching, rusting, and tarnishing inflicted on the most famous American. These, focusing on one national economy at a time of recession \u2013 and currently on display at Tate Liverpool during the next recession \u2013 become harder to read as the damage tends towards abstraction. But then, isn\u2019t the whole convention of money an abstraction of sorts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadwebsite.com\/2013\/07\/30\/art-stuff-on-a-train-13-minimum-values\/\">Originally posted on FAD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most days art Critic Paul Carey-Kent spends hours on the train, traveling between his home in Southampton and his day job in Surrey. Could he, we asked, jot down whatever came into his head? White Cube\u2019s Mason\u2019s Yard summer show includes six of Martin John Callanan\u2019s striking series \u2018The Fundamental Units\u2019. Callanan uses thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1408],"tags":[2305,2687,65,2679,2688,1490,2689,1483,2685,2263,2686,1489,2678,1477,1478,2681,2680,2677,2676,2262],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-fundamental-units","tag-abstraction","tag-art-critic","tag-callanan","tag-copperheads","tag-day-job","tag-denomination","tag-fad","tag-fundamental-units","tag-jot-down","tag-masons","tag-minimum-values","tag-naked-eye","tag-national-economy","tag-national-physical-laboratory","tag-optical-microscope","tag-public-access","tag-recession","tag-striking-series","tag-tate-liverpool","tag-white-cube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3015,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}