Exhibition of the week: IAIN BAXTER&/Adam Chodzko

theguardian
Jonathan Jones
July 5, 2013

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Exhibition of the week: IAIN BAXTER&/Adam Chodzko

This exhibition juxtaposes two masters of provocation. Iain Baxter& – he added the & to his name in 2005 – is one of the founders of conceptual art. In 1966 he and Ingrid Baxter created the NE Thing Co., a totally free and undefined art enterprise that was registered as a real company under Canadian law. The NE Thing Co. was a pioneer of the socialisation and deconstruction of art in the late 1960s. Baxter&’s subversive wit meets its match in Adam Chodzko, who has been teasing at the edges of contemporary British art for two dangerous decades.

• Raven Row, London E1 from 11 July until 11 August

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Installation view of IAIN BAXTER&’s Bagged Place, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, 1966 .  Photograph: courtesy the artist