SERIAL KILLERS: ELEMENTS OF PAINTING MULTIPLIED X SIX ARTISTS
06.05.00 - 28.05.00
Eliza Griffiths
Dan Hays
Simon Martin
Alex Morrison
Lucy Pullen
Curated by Rosemary Heather
Traditionally the space defined by a painting recedes backwards and projects outwards, an axis to which its history and its illusionistic capacities mutually contribute. ‘Serial Killers’ proposes to make apparent the already present third axis that exists in the space BETWEEN PAINTINGS, and in the space between IMAGES GENERALLY in the potential relation of the juxtaposition. The idea is to use paintings to create a space outside painting; or more specifically perhaps to create a tension between the two: an inside that is painting and an outside that is literally EVERYTHING ELSE.
The show is about seriality in that the artists were asked to multiply their efforts times 4. What results is the BIG PICTURE, chopped up and multiplied; like a series of gaps and incidents, except here paintings are discovered to be capable of generating NOTHING but themselves. This means, SERIAL KILLERS = LOVE: Because love is always ONE even when it is multiple. We are then ART in the context of Starbucks, or art in the context of the internet; or art and technology, oh so literalized. Love played out as moments and gaps. Art played out as LIKING hockey, and yet not wanting to be hockey itself. Thee serial KILLER. The ERIN BROCKOVICH of painting shows. Made with love, but a poor simulation of what it isi ifferent to in any case.
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