Art I like - Pavel Buchler

Though I haven't seen the art (except in photos), I like the words about the artist:

>Summing up his own practice as "making nothing happen", he is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange.

>By finding meaning at the margins, he draws our attention to the potential of the small scale to say important things about our current world.

>Büchler’s work evolves around two fundamental concerns: time and the manipulation of found materials. Concerned with the distortions of language, he gives a critical attention to the gaps in communication, fascinated as he is with the limits of the communicative properties of visual language. He often addresses the question of the legitimacy of communication in addition to its ephemeral and long-lasting nature.

(Not sure about this, though): "A key mode in his practice is the way he invests objects with storytelling, making the objects speak in a way that changes their effect on the spectator."

From the "Short Stories" series, here are used pencils found in Cambridge Central Library (1996) -

And I like the idea:

>Diary 2001, (2003), is a single diary page on which the artist made entries for each day for a whole year, resulting in a surface that has become textured and bruised, full of unintelligible information.

The work above is called "Idle Thoughts".

He's made a small edition of books called What the Cleaners Saw Found . "Produced as a series of very modest publications, the edition gathers years of experience with the bureaucratic insanity of working in an art school. Initially generated for ideological reasons, they long since took on a life of their own, becoming self-serving elements of an independent officialdom that constantly feels the need to justify its existence. Escape is impossible..."

He recently exhibited in Prague and his show in London, "Studio Schwitters", ends on 13 November.

This is "Eclipse", shown earlier: