The Object is the Mirror
The Object is the Mirror
15.11. - 21.12.2007The Object is the Mirror Curator: Max Henry All fiction is propaganda. (Jacques Ellul) A bad poet imitates, a good poet steals (T.S. Eliot) The social conditions of the present day is one of a mistrust of familiar icons (circa 2007) as we transition between two ages; the analog past and the virtual, digitized now. In contemporary art, artists are the new high priests teaching the blind (mainstream) to see that cultural memory is overloaded with doses of trivia and superfluous data. Sifting through the rubbish, the artistic positions of the present day often contaminate and usurp the given authenticity of various categories of art historical works. The recent strategies for reinterpretations are doubling up the notion of provenance in the visual field. Original meaning (the creation myth) gets shaken and stirred into ambiguous zones of contextual mirrors. Through networks of digital media (the jpeg) and disseminated printed sources (art magazines) a Chinese box effect has led to information doppelgangers. A new iconography clones the old ones, remixing the signposts of yesterday. Such visual mash-ups run roughshod over the discourse, even while owing to its semantics. (Re)-appropriation recombines the innovative gestures of important art iconography while sending out a reflection of them. The Object is the Mirror embraces a broad range of conceptual approaches and methodologies, including painting, sculpture, drawing, text, photography, and video. -Max Henry Vienna, 2007
Installation view, Scott Myles Mirror Room, 2007 installation Dimensions variable
Installation view, Scott Myles Mirror Room, 2007 installation Dimensions variable Luke Dowd 2006 Sprayprint 140 x 200 cm Ed 3/5
Jason Meadows Stool with Heads, 2007 Mixed media 91,5 x 48,5 x 30,5 cm, Wayne Gonzales Untitled, 2007 acrylic on canvas 2 panels 40,6 x 30,5 cm each overall dimensions: variable
Wayne Gonzales Untitled, 2007 acrylic on canvas 2 panels 40,6 x 30,5 cm each overall dimensions: variable
Jason Meadows Stool with Heads, 2007 Mixed media 91,5 x 48,5 x 30,5 cm, Installation view, Scott Myles Mirror Room, 2007 installation Dimensions variable
Installation view, Meredyth Sparks, Klaus Weber, Joshua Smith
Joshua Smith Untitled, 2007 Polaroid 7,6 x 7,6 cm
Klaus Weber Haus Für Eskapisten, 2007 Mixed media Dimensions variable
Olivier Babin DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER, 2005 Liquitex on canvas 3 elements: 20,5 x 25,5 cm each AP 1/1 (3 ex. + 1 AP)
Meredyth Sparks Untitled, 2007 Offset prints, wood pedestal 35 x 14 x 14 inches, Meredyth Sparks Untitled (Gudrun in sequence #1), 2007 Digital scan, aluminum foil, glitter 1/3 = 28,7 x 47,3 cm,2/3 = 28,4 x 47,3 cm,3/3 = 31,3 x 47,3 cm; Meredyth Sparks Untitled (Title Page), 2007 Digital scan, aluminum foil, glitter 102 x 152 cm
Meredyth Sparks Untitled (Title Page), 2007 Digital scan, aluminum foil, glitter 102 x 152 cm
Marcelline Delbecq In camera / 1, 2006 Letters: mirror stainless steel 32 x 250 cm (Text: The picture holds. The Action and the Sound stop.); Jason Meadows looking glass, 2007 mixed media 162 x 59 x 71 cm
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen The Phool, 2007 Spraypaint on silk screen 178,5 x 77,5 cm (unframed) Ed. 1/3 + 2 AP; Marcelline Delbecq In camera / 1, 2006 Letters: mirror stainless steel 32 x 250 cm (Text: The picture holds. The Action and the Sound stop.)
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen Cosmic Reconstruction, 2007 Reinforced glass, steel cable 113 x 113 x 113 cm
Slater Bradley Ghost, 2001 Single Channel, with sound Duration: 1hr 57 secs Dimensions variable