Mustafa Hulusi 05.03.99-28.03.99 There is no time to lose... As the last lights of the twentieth century flicker out, we contemplate the dawn of a new age. This new age, we are told, will be one of renewed hope and fresh possibilities, a land of opportunity and personal growth. The creation, no less, of a new Jerusalem, a place where people come first in a melting pot of creativity and imagination. Mustafa Hulusi sees this new Jerusalem for what it is. Beneath the slick life-style features, beneath the well-moisturised skin tissue of Tory lies, the daily hopes and dreams of its people flow, all to easily into the gutters of indifference, carried away by an estuary of boredom and choked ambitions, only to be drowned in a sea of cappuccino and extra-virgin olive oil. This is what Mustafa Hulusi must face. The city, a millennial whore of Babylon, the despot's citadel. Where financiers of every nation buy and sell the future, descending from their towers at night to a warren of secret courts and gardens, joining their concubines and libertines consuming opiate substances and sounds in the drunken cabaret of the great decline. Here a thousand tongues are spoken, but nothing is understood. But what can Mustafa Hulusi do against the hydra-headed forces the city conceals? Lost amidst the florid arabesques of this gilded cage, in the spiralling carousel of a culture grown bloated with its own self-infatuation, what power is there in a name? Only a name, nothing else, repeated endlessly. A mononuclear chemotherapy for the growing cancer of excess meaning. In a land where individual expression is king, Mustafa Hulusi is the refusal to add to the din; Mustafa Hulusi the art show, Mustafa Hulusi the media campaign, Mustafa Hulusi the brand name. If the quality of culture must decline, Mustafa Hulusi will take it to ground zero. Mustafa Hulusi promises nothing and delivers. Mustafa Hulusi is the hottest art show of '99, and all but the righteous will burn. Mustafa Hulusi will be the first in a trilogy of shows at platform, marking the final collapse of Western Civilisation.
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