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Michael Ilias Linders
Minor Riot,
2011.
Mixed media
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'MINOR RIOT'
Michael Ilias Linders at blank projects
'MINOR RIOT' is a probe of imagined views of the ordinary, which are collected from the multicultural reservoir of global visual media. The collected works are after-reflections or afterthoughts brought together under the ethos of the 'clusterfuck aesthetic'*. They are about intuitively playing with the moment of thought that happens when an idea that was once thought a great idea is in fact - in time and realization - a rather average, even boring idea, but being happy with that fact. The joy of taking average and mixing it with more average and getting averagely good in the end.
* 'Take an object, Do something to it, Do something else to it' - Jasper Johns
01 March - 31 March
also showing
Gerda Scheepers
Modal Approach and Accent,
2011;
Mixed media
'Modal Approach and Accent'
Gerda Scheepers
'Modal Approach and Accent' is the title of Gerda Scheepers's show at Blank Projects. By applying imagery as short-hand for both her own art making process or specific (cultural) signs and figurations, Gerda Scheepers explores the medium of painting. Content and formal elements of painting are remixed through cut, copy and paste with the results actively pursuing ambiguity. The sculptures and paintings operate like devices for containment that, ultimately and crucially, fail to contain.
Scheepers often works within series or groupings of work, creating environments for (often repetitive) motifs and gestures. In this selection of work the shape of a t-shirt is at the same time motif in a picture and picture surface for another layer of signifiers, similar to the way that sculptural elements with a very concrete heritage act as support structure to paintings that have shifted through methodical gesture and moved to abstraction.
The work is caught up in a system signifying progress, which is reconfigured in a careful orchestration that deliberately fails to deliver the complete and self-contained result that they seem to promise.