Abstract/Summary

“Hey, I'm Mr. Poetic, A worker in aesthetics, I work to make the mundane mysterious, I work to make the unimportant serious” The Poetics (Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler) Hey, I’m Mr Poetic features the work of 23 artists who have worked at Wysing in different ways over the last 25 years presenting work in all shapes, forms, materials and mediums and addressing multifarious ideas. The exhibition is a playful take on what artists do and make and what histories and stories can be told institutionally and artistically. Via art works, objects, images and experiences are rethought, reordered and recreated, to make the ordinary extraordinary, or the mundane revelatory.