Saturday, November 10th from 6-10pm @ Art
Room
NAILING
KANDINSKY TO THE WALL:
Origins of New Media Art in the 21st
Century
The event is important: an exhibition of computer generated paintings
that are indistinguishable from those made with more traditional methods of oil,
brush and canvas.
True to the artistic individualism of the 21st Century, these images are
formed from direct light, by way of digital gesture and pure color, in the search
for a new vision, all the while questioning the medium’s
boundaries, those of painting
itself.
However art is porous, entirely dependent
for meaning both on the experience and rejection of the past. Our understanding
of cultural memory is also constantly reshaped by new mediums, and so never
truly repeated either.
Nailing
Kandinsky affirms that, within recent digital practices, interest lies in
observing the mechanisms of an artistic reinterpretation. The physicality of
much of today's art is an active reconfiguration of the past, replaying known
events and strategies while positing a "truer" version that is more in sync with
current life and its ever-advancing technology.
Unconnected artists are
breaking ever larger chunks of “history” into their work: the bending of form
and genre, the lure and blur of the real itself, of the old with new.
The questions this exhibition
explore constantly play out around us in the real world, and Nailing Kandinsky
is a rigorous, radical reframing of how we might think about truth and memory
and the creation of art itself.
- Jessica Hopkins, director at
Art|Room
Art Room is located at 7 North
Saginaw Street, Pontiac, Michigan 48342 - both floors of art will be on
view.
email: detroitmona@aol.com telephone:
248.210.7560 website: www.jefbourgeau.com
