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Posted by Vanishing Points on February 03, 2002 at 12:56:31:
M a t t h i a s G r o e b e l "Vanishing Points"
February
23 - April 6 2002
Location: Universal Concepts
Unlimited
507 West 24h Street
New York, NY 10011
212.727.7575 / ucu1@rcn.com
Contact : Marian Ziola
For
press images -
http://www.eyewithwings.net/pressmaterial/
Universal
Concepts Unlimited is pleased to present the work of Matthias
Groebel in
an exhibition entitled Vanishing Points. On view at Universal
Concepts
Unlimited, from February 23 - April 6, 2002.
A public opening reception
for the artist will be held at the gallery on
Saturday, February 23, 6-8
pm, at 507 West 24th Street in Chelsea.
Vanishing Points will
feature digitally produced paintings that incorporate
images and text
from a variety of sources: TV, video tapes, and Asian video
CDs. Groebel
manipulates the sampled television images, addressing the
general
cultural memory inherent in these images. By synthesizing
traditional
painting with computer printing techniques, Groebel constructs
the
machines that manufacture the paintings, he combines the
elements
associated with painting and reconfigures the working process,
making it
clear that the vanishing point of his artistic practice lays
outside the
canvas. Groebel1s interest in painting is not about painting,
however,
instead he uses the vocabulary of painting as a means to depict
how
perception is altered.
Originally the vanishing point
was invented in the renaissance as a means
to
construct a
representation of space. This development coincided with the
birth of the
individual and marked a shift of consciousness. Groebel
maintains that
the modified representation of space introduced by the
camera
marks another shift of consciousness. Television pictures
are the most
removed images from the mathematical renaissance
construction and are
perceived as "real" today.
Matthias
Groebel is a German artist living and working in Cologne; this is
his
first solo exhibition in New York. For further information contact
Marian
Ziola at 212.727.7575 or
ucu1@rcn.com.
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Universal Concepts
Unlimited
507 West 24th Street
New York, NY
10011
212.727.7575
ucu1@rcn.com
