 |
Email PageGhost Hardware
May 24, 2008- July 11, 2008
Reception: May 24, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sean Dack
Daniel Reich Gallery
537A W 23rd StDaniel Reich Gallery is very pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Sean Dack, Ghost Hardware, featuring new photographs and sculpture.
Sean Dackıs new photographs expound upon Dackıs pursuit of the cryptography of digital images and the unpredicted errors intrinsic to their transmission. Malformed and missing crucial ³blocks² of data, such images belie the digital nature of our illustionistic virtual world: abrasive ruptures while watching a DVD (causing one to manually tap the player) or while loading an image in ones computer Browser. Rendered in dubiously pop CMYK cyans, hot pinks and electric blues: Dackıs partially decipherable subjects appear dynamic and mobile. Yet since digital ³glitches,² tangle and halt the flow of information, Dackıs ³stopped² images seem to express an isolated impersonal world. This impersonal world is hermetic outside of the orbit of the world at large enclosed in the obsessive-compulsive space of computer screen work and folly. A helicopter hovers, the ostentatious rounded terraces of a postmodern hotel signify grotesque vacuous luxury, and the faces of glamorous women are obscured by formal pixel blocks. As the resolution of digital images has improved in a few decades, the appearance of the evident square of the pixel is nostalgic yet tinged with the recollection of non-user-friendly computing: not completely enveloping computing distinguished by its imperfect pixilated line and the healthy differentiation between daily life which is merely mapped instead of replicated. As Dackıs colors are garish, his pixels are aesthetically dubious: evocative of early ³computer drawing² and ³poor taste² is also at issue in Dackıs work. And yet Dackıs glossy prints are formal and function sculpturally as seductive reflective slabs. In this way, there are aspects of Jacques Derridaıs concept of ³hauntology². As Derridaıs theory of ³hauntology² has recently been ascribed to music and popular culture, it is the glimmering, shimmering and suggested a quality attributable to Dackıs prints and sculptures. In the distant ³reality² ³obscured² by Dackıs formal pixel stripes, there is a heady mystery in terms of indecipherable action beneath the pixels, the color and the gloss of the print. And in the midst of a day-glow palate, there is foreboding and blocky subsumed death as though one is among bright ghosts and half rendered covert actions. Yet this same day-glow formal block quality has a modish goofy celebratory insouciance in rambling irregular staggered bars of information.
The loss of capacity to relay meaning is also captured in Dack's excellent Ghost Hardware sculptures in attractive candy primary colors. These works are John McCracken-like: cast in bright hues making the oblongs of obsolete stereo components (tape deck, multi disk c.d. changer etc.) into formal sculptures. While their largess, once made them enticing objects emblematic of auditory superiority, they now have a mute slab like quality albeit bright yet bleak in their import.
Recently, Dack participated in ³The Hidden² at Maureen Paley in London. His solo show at Fred Snitzer Gallery in Miami was exceptionally received. In the past year, he has exhibited at the Moore Space, The Moscow Biennial, and in a Peter Coffin curated exhibition at Frank Elbaz in Paris. Last summer Dack produced the book Future Songs as a mail exhibition in conjunction with Daniel Reich Gallery. Dack has also exhibited at Hiromi Yoshi in Tokyo and will be included in ³The Future as Disruption² at The Kitchen this summer. For additional information, please contact Daniel Reich Gallery at 212 924 4949. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
|
 | |||||||||||||
Daniel Reich Gallery was last updated: 2008-10-07
Update general information with the Gallery Editor.
Update shows with the Exhibition Manager.
Update inventory with the Inventory Manager.
Update general information with the Gallery Editor.
Update shows with the Exhibition Manager.
Update inventory with the Inventory Manager.
|
© 2005-2008 chelseaartgalleries.com | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy
| Site Map |
