Kruger's paintings rephrase the visual vocabulary of signs and posters, drawing on the seductive nature of
current image production technologies and the viral process that installs them in a collective consciousness.
Not exact matches
But if
current fantasies of flexibility and connectedness have accelerated new means of rendering and displaying old goods, then I appreciate the reproduction of these
images — sourced from forms of
production and consumption oriented toward disappearance — as having emblazoned their foundational supports with instabilities that call ahead a reservation for their successors to the width of closing portfolio folds.
Coming of age alongside Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoffer and Thomas Struth in what was to become known as the Düsseldorf School, Ruff's work explores the technologies of the camera and
image production — from satellite cameras to digital lenses, from the analogue negative to the JPEG — to reflect on the picturing of our built environment,
current affairs, pornography, disaster, the cosmos, exhibition making — and unlock what
images tell us about modernity.
Film and Video
Image Files Collected from artists, film
production companies, non-profit institutions, and the Whitney's film and video collection, these files functioned as reference material for past and
current exhibitions / projects, documentation of exhibitions / projects, source material, and as a record of Museum events.
With this provocation, Fontcuberta manages to conceive a critical reflection on the authorship and
production methods of contemporary artworks whist pointing at the
current trend of
image over consumption.
Moreover, because the
images are now thirteen to twenty years old, the relevant issues in the
current exhibition are less about recent artistic
production and more a matter of curatorial practice, art history, and the history and generative possibilities of the photographic
image itself.
His
current exhibition, There Is No Last Man, at MoMA PS1 in New York provides a sample of his recent
production, with a smaller space presenting the text - and -
image work Volume Eleven (flaw in the algorithm of cosmopolitanism)(2016), and a larger, improvised theater screening the feature - length film Tripoli Cancelled (2017), both of which had originally been made in the context of documenta 14.