Primitive Correspondence
November 1, 2007- January 5, 2008
Reception: November 1, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
547 W 27th St
The works in this show are culled from two series of paintings: the
first takes as point of departure from simple still-lives created in
3D software, and the second from snapshots from my first trip to
Europe a number of years ago. The simple still-life scenes (which, of
course, do not exist in reality) with their crisp, fetishized geometry
describe a technical way of assimilating the visible world—computer
graphics in general, don't represent a 'recreation' of reality any
more 'perfect' than painting does, but through the use of elaborate
mathematical shortcuts, averagings and magician's tricks provide an
arguably 'real' experience bordering on optical verisimilitude. It is
precisely those shortcuts that make this way of 'organizing' reality
resemble representational painting to some degree. These scenes
resonate with the clear pictorial organization in the snapshot
landscapes of touchstone monuments and locations where this way of
conceiving is identified as having gained so much traction within our
culture. They reinforce the same sort of austere cultivation of
abstraction of form so prevalent in the roots of the West, and
emphasize the role of meditation upon their remains as a primer or
initiation of sorts for a thinking participant in, on or around the
Tradition. Indeed, 'primitive' may always be a charged term when we
speak of art and/or culture, but here it refers innocuously to the
base volumes that make up the still lives and alludes to the simple,
but not simplistic relations with the world of ideas difficult to
exclude from their contemplation.
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Chris O'Connor
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