Andrew Huston & Matthieu Mercier
dal 19/3/2008 al 19/4/2008
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Center for contemporary non-objective art
19/3/2008
Andrew Huston & Matthieu Mercier
CCNOA Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Bruxelles
Huston works with industrially fabricated mirrors from which he creates geometric shapes that are then assembled together into dynamic patterns. Mercier's work explores the relationship between contemporary mass-produced consumer objects and their aesthetic origins in early 20th Century art and design.
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Andrew Huston -Caption
Huston works with industrially fabricated mirrors from which he creates geometric shapes that are then assembled together into dynamic patterns. As with other mirror works, Huston painstakingly removes part of the silver on the back of the object and then paints over it in various primary and pop colors, creating seamless planes and illusionistic space that engages and distracts the viewer. By superimposing and interlocking the shapes into vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines, these vibrant objects transcend the boundaries of paintings and sculpture. Huston’s work is rooted in and committed to the history of painting and simultaneously engages with the realm of the decorative. The constructions are made of straight shards of glass and some comprise part of a broken round-edged mirror traversed by a slender plane of glass, which lends the piece a soft sensuality. His playful floating pieces here seem to have broken away from their frames and hark back to Kasimir Malevich’s austere suprematist works.
At the CCNOA project space Houston will present a series of new works.
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Matthieu Mercier - Red and Blue Blast
Mercier’s work explores the relationship between contemporary mass-produced consumer objects and their aesthetic origins in early 20th Century art and design. He frequently employs common household and industrial materials to create his sculptural, photographic, and wall-based works. Mercier’s work often refers to utopian movements such as De Stijl and Russian Constructivism. One series of sculptures, titled ‘Drum and Bass’, recreates classic Mondrian compositions out of black DIY shelving and primary-colored household objects such as plastic bins, extension cables, and stationary folders. In ‘Plastic Anchors Wall’, Mercier again traces the use of primary colors from early Modernist art, through to their function as color-coding for different sizes of screw anchors. By creating a dialogue between utopian art and design icons and contemporary mass-produced objects, Mercier highlights the evolution of the meaning of “modernity”, from a social project, to a capital gain.
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