| MARK GOMES Hold November 19th - December 17th, 2005 |
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| Photographs: cut and cropped, mounted on waterjet-cut aluminum, suspended 3" from the wall. 2005. Daylight 38" x 72" Night Light 38" x 72" Private view 38" x 60" Public view 38" x 60" Hold together 30" x 45" Hold still 30" x 45" Hold forth 30" x 45" Hold back 30" x 45" Hold sacred 30" x 45" Hold in 30" x 45"
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| DAVID SPRIGGS The Aesthetics of Speed November 19th - December 17th, 2005 |
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David Spriggs wants us to rethink notions of space/time in order to achieve
a new aesthetics of speed. He asks us not to discard ideas inherent
to Futurism — the notion of universal dynamism and the inextricable connection
of forms to their environment — or Cubism — the concept of simultaneous multiple
viewpoints, the deconstruction of the world around us — but to build upon
them. Since our world is a globalized one, influenced everyday by digital,
communicative, optical and medical technologies, a new aesthetics of speed
acknowledges the contemporary world's dynamism and seeks to represent the
speed at which society's art, language, sounds, ideas, technologies, products
and objects are changing. To
achieve a new aesthetics of speed, Spriggs suggest that virtual space be
created and used as compliantly and abstractly as needed, that it can be
fashioned, divided, broken, mapped, ordered and disordered, intersected,
pushed and pulled, stretched, dissolved, or overlapped at will. Out
of this virtual reconsideration forms would emerge in incorporeal and amorphous
states and would be experienced from every viewpoint — both inside and out
— deconstructed or reconstructed, disrupted, contradicted and reviewed as
many times as we like. David
Spriggs breaks free from the laws that constrict two or three dimensional
art materials and uses any means possible to achieve a new virtual space.
He seeks not to become trapped in a programmed digital world. He
challenges the flatness of the screen and monitor. He challenges the
flatness of the image, the photograph, the painting and the three dimensional
limitations of traditional sculpture. He seeks possibilities for a
sculpture of the incorporeal and a place for the representation of the immaterial. |
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