The shortest short story ever written,...
dal 30/4/2008 al 31/5/2008
Segnalato da
30/4/2008
The shortest short story ever written,...
FormContent, London
Dissimilar but conceptually loaded, the works of Patrizio Di Massimo, Justin Gainan and Steve Van den Bosch are positioned in the space with no apparent reciprocal connection. The viewer is thus called upon to make choices and to fill the gaps in the readability of the pieces on display.
The show mirrors the short story written on the recto: Dissimilar but conceptually loaded, the works of Patrizio Di Massimo, Justin Gainan and Steve Van den Bosch are positioned in the space with no apparent reciprocal connection. The viewer is thus called upon to make choices and to fill the gaps in the readability of the pieces on display.
A feeling of expectation seems to work as linking thread between the three different practices, challenging the viewers with the feeling of their self-awareness as observers: Only a pointing finger seems to be offered and the artworks ask to take an active role in their perception.
Patrizio Di Massimo introduces an almost mythological temporal dimension by inserting in the work different sets of references and quotations. He applies an ironic attitude together with a strongly codified set of images to provoke the viewers’ visual imagination. In such an endless collection of formal and conceptual allusions, the viewer is asked to choose what to believe and what to discard.
With no apparent connections with any visual reference, Justin Gainan tests his artistic practice with self-imposed tasks that he performs meticulously until he establishes that a result has been reached. Rebuilding the surface of a wall as smoothly as possible, filling the entirety of a paper with undecipherable patterns or simply tapping a piece of paper with a pencil for a set amount of time. Precisely when the viewer realises that there is nothing specific to see, the awareness of his/her position of ‘spectator in search for a meaning’ arises.
The minimal and sometimes dry interventions of Steve Van den Bosch balance between invisibility and straight materiality. He introduces self-constructed systems to track the possibly faulty outcomes of any linear reasoning via continuous subjective speculation. As a straight line connecting two separate points of a thought, Steve’s work faces the inevitable consequences embedded in any conceptual gesture; everything has its resonance and therefore any action could be inscribed into a system, even if this would imply guessing the laws of its own functioning.
“Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí” is a short story by Augusto Monterroso (1959) and the text that follows it, is FormContent’s interpretation.
Private View: Thursday 1st of May, with a performance conceived by Patrizio di Massimo
FormContent
347 Beck road - London
Free admission