..a little more backtracking

..so as ive been trying to catch up with whats been going on in the real world ive inadvertently failed to post the linking work.. i.e. the main piece that was in the exhibition 'these words i seek are not my own' which was the subject of the last post i made before the interim..


so here it is in all its dubious glory:

'vs'

capcom, google, wood, dulux, projector, oil, acrylic, reclaimed frame, hardware

2011

we (the artists and a few other folks from around the studio) had a crit and this is the general thread of conversation regarding the work...

somewhat forceful presentation of a view of incestuous counter-intuitive/symbiotic relationship existing between contemporary and historical dipictive image making.

obscuring the plurality or multiplicity from both painterly and pseudo painterly perspectives

content rendered, aside from being a deliberate rendering of a simulated physical (albeit exaggerated) conflict, attempt to both loose and gain from the translation between digital animated depiction and rendered physical still, conflict in climax, frozen or perpetuated.

the work, although existing in a white cube environment alongside parrallel quotiditian objects, appears to do so reluctantly - the overzealous/bracketed method of hanging forms the aestetic of an object ill at ese with its given location.

the somewhat hobbyish approach taken to the frame, applying acrylic paint and coloured washes to create a semi tromp leoil parody of the traditional gold leaf bounderies of 19th century salon paintings on 'red wall' a somewhat quasi or pseudo reverent treatment of the image concerned.

perhaps more homely than institutional presentation of imagery - the image itsself is both iconic and a potent signifier of an early age of arcade/home gaming and the middle 'golden era' of penny arcades, although predominantly a signifier for the older generation of gamers to whom these games were marketed in the late 80s and early 90s. also to whom the image tends to trigger the most potent sense of nostalgia, the image can also be a powerful trigger. the female population more readily as little understood obsession of male friends, relatives and loved ones.