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TOSC - (Tendencies of Self-Containment)
Matthias Groebel - “Vanishing Points - Series”
Vanishing Points features 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. Groebel’s 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.
Bradley Rubenstein
In Bradley Rubenstein's works the psychological associations are
rich and often sinister, suggesting the perils and pleasures of both sexual
development and biotechnology. Series of hybrid anatomies explore similar
themes of lost youth, the genealogy of identity, and unfettered biological
bodies.
Rubenstein's images incorporate photographs of friends and family,
early childhood drawings, PET, MRI, and x-ray scans, acupuncture diagrams, and
art historical references. All of these
disparate elements are reconfigured through a complex process that combines traditional
picture making methods with modern technology.
Andrew Topolski - “Rotation Drones”
In Andrew Topolski’s
recent works the artist exquisitely depicts mysterious structures which
incorporate details of linear fields, architectural systems, intricate
logarithmic spirals, mathematical diagrams and elements from musical
scores.
Excerpts from Clarity of
Vision an essay by Charlotta Kotik:
"The work of Andrew Topolski revolves around one of the oldest yet one of the flexible mediums
known to man - the medium of drawing. And although it has transformed in this
century in truly dramatic ways, in the work of this artist it has reached yet
another dimension. Topolski’s complex and beautiful works on paper force us to
define the category of drawing even further, enriching it in ways previously
uncharted.”
Dion Kliner - "The
Lost Pleiad, Fragment"
“Take a walk through almost any museum and you'll see sculptures
of figures that are smooth, and stiff, and uninspired. Sometimes if you lower your gaze, something
more than the body is afoot. There,
below the arms and legs, beneath an ass or under foot, it is possible to
discover a base of surprising expression and interest which is usually
overlooked. Not the pedestal mined you,
but the base. It is in this lower
region that you find the sculptor working qua sculptor without concern for
figurative conventions. This is where
the sculptor of Old can be seen pushing material around with the freedom and
unbounded will to make sculpture of a Modern without even knowing what a Modern
would be.”
Dion Kliner’s sculptures are sculptures of the bases of some of
these sculptures---Not identical reproductions, but close enough approximations
that if a person were familiar with the original sculpture and remembered the
base they would recognize Kliner’s sculpture as the base. For most people, however, bases are usually
of little interest, so given the look of these sculptures the realization that
they are bases is forestalled until the titles reveal them as such. "The Mountain Man" is Frederick
Remington's "Mountain Man"; "The Lost Pleiad" is Randolph
Rogers' "Lost Pleiad". Not to
understand the sculptures as bases is not to understand them at all.
For further information please contact Marian Ziola @ Universal
Concepts Unlimited: 212 727 7575