Digital Landscapes: 1565/2002 is an installation of paintings that examine the relationship between digital image-making and painting. Each painting represents a particular meeting of the processes of graphics programs and video imagery with that of language and imagery from the history of painting.
Digital Landscapes: 1565/2002
Opening Reception: Thursday, 16 January, 6 - 8PM
Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Pedro
Barbeito. This is Barbeito's third solo show in New York and his second at
Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
Digital Landscapes: 1565/2002 is an installation of paintings that examine
the relationship between digital image-making and painting. Each painting
represents a particular meeting of the processes of graphics programs and
video imagery with that of language and imagery from the history of painting.
By staging unexpected meetings between these two mediums of representation,
Barbeito presents these paintings as grounds for both the technological
medium and the painterly processes to unfold.
Video game stills and old master paintings have been downloaded from the
internet, pixilated using software programs, and translated onto canvas with
acrylic. The digital is endowed, in a nostalgic gesture, with the texture
and physicality of the past, while the naturalness and authority of the
painterly image is abstracted and retranslated through the processes of
digital image production. In these paintings, Barbeito points to how the
digital and the painterly are embedded in each other in fundamental ways.
More importantly, it is by exploring their connections that Barbeito blurs
the line between what we know as abstract and what we recognize as
representational and reveals new ways in which painting can challenge the
ways in which we understand and process images.
Pedro Barbeito was born in La Coruna, Spain and received his MFA in painting
from Yale University. His work has been exhibited at the Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, Whitechapel Art Gallery
in London, and Exit Art among others. He lives and works in New York City.
Image: Pedro Barbeito, Crab Nebula
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
540 West 26 Street, New York
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