When fireworks and artworks have something in common: a group show with Paul Cowan and other nine artists, currently at Cell Project Space
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- Paul Cowan, BCUASEE THE SKY IS BULE, 2013 Chroma-key blue paint on canvas,127 cm x 72.4 cm
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- Wade Guyton Angled, 2013 Silk screen Print 61 cm x 92 cm x 1.3 cm
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- Gabriele Beveridge, See through you, 2013, Poster, rusted metal, healing crystal, frame, inkjet on pegboard, mirror, scarf, wood, pegs 180cm x 125cm x 6cm
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- Magali Reus, Parking (Jogs), 2013 polyester resin, pigments, clear PVC, cotton, Airtex, 57 cm x 140 cm x 48 cm
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- Matias Faldbakken, Parts Cabinet, 2013 metal cabinet, plastic bins screws, bolts miscellaneous 200 x 70.5 x 37cm
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- Bryan Dooley, Y-Mountain #3, 2013 Powder coated aluminium, laserjet print, silkscreen print, steel dip bar bar (140 cm x 70 cm), print (88 cm x 165 cm)
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- on the background: Paul Cowan, Untitled, 2013 Rose oil and latex paint dimensions variable
On November the 7th, the sky outside Cell Project Space was lit by the trajectory of a firework. The following explosion and the dispersal of sparks flying outwards reflects somehow the history of art: a singular object of contemplation once, replaced by a surface that calamitates networked global visibility today. The second in a series of exhibitions titled after the eponymous essay by Boris Groys Comrades of Time (ed. e-flux, 2009) curated by Chewday’s, features a group of artists whose work reconsider the concept of Modernism in the high-speed world we live in. Gabriele Beveridge, Paul Cowan, Bryan Dooley, Koen Delaere, Matias Faldbakken, Nicolas Gambaroff, Wade Guyton, Bas van der Hurk, Marlie Mul and Magali Reus, present apolitical, asexual, ahistorical works that defer any ultimate arrival. «All of the artists are informed by Modernist principles yet renegotiate its tropes in different ways. Some displace or reconfigure its signifiers, others engage in a more conflictual dialogue, yet overall I see a general reconsideration of Modernist ideas – a testing of how these ideas can continue to be relevant in our time» explains curator Tobias Czudej. In our era of infinity scrolling, Comrades of time suggests a renewed confidence in the plastic arts for continued art making.
Carlo Prada
September 22, 2014
