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gennaio 18, 2020 - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
David Salle - Self-ironing Pants and Other Paintings
Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is pleased to present Self-ironing Pants and Other Paintings, an exhibition of new works by the American artist #davidsalle. Comprising large-scale paintings, this series presents a radical visual approach, juxtaposing images sourced from advertising with black-and-white cartoons appropriated from The New Yorker magazine of the 1950s. These works create a pictorial space that is deliberately fragmentary, playing with suspended narratives and including allusions to Pop art, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism.
David Salle's paintings present objects in vibrant colours culled from advertising imagery, floating past each other in virtual space, at times grossly enlarged, shown upside-down or from a skewed perspective. By combining seemingly unrelated images – of cars, edibles, cigarettes, coffee-cups – Salle plays with the viewers' aesthetic expectations, drawing their gaze across several contrasting images in diverse representational styles. 'Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.' (David Salle, 2003)
The title Self-ironing Pants and Other Paintings is typical of David Salle's ironic stance on the status of painting, which he accentuates by using the witty slapstick mood encapsulated in the cartoons from The New Yorker. These works expressively challenge the notion of narrative, by presenting stereotypical fragments of the American lifestyle of the 1950s and 1960s. Commenting on this series, #davidsalle states: 'This is not to historicize the present moment or the recent past; it's a recognition that the "great destabilizing" has already occurred.'
For #davidsalle, painting - like language or poetry - emphasises the counter balancing of contrasting elements: 'compression, juxtaposition, simultaneity, resistance to closure, dissonance [...] It makes free use of surprising and abrupt transitions and juxtapositions. It seeks to distill entire blocks of emotion and complex experiences into the telling detail, the closely observed fragment that stands in for the whole.' His paintings produce kaleidoscopic effects reflecting the constant stream of simultaneous thoughts, feelings, and visuals that constitute an intense, energetic and humorous portrayal of contemporary life today.
20110509 © Robert Wright closeup David Salle
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David Salle photo Robert Wright
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