Junkspace 012 Artwork

The idea of recycling far from being new or groundbreaking justly points towards an interesting place in the evolution of contemporary art.In times of mass-culture overdoses and paradoxical but systematic ones of widespread material need due to global economic downturns, what architect- theoretician Rem Koolhaas has coined in 2002 as the JUNKSPACE era, takes all its sense.The result of the unprecedented fusion of capitalism and culture and its collateral damages. To say that our globalizing culture consumes as much as it litters in order to create its present, situates the idea of Junkspace. Its the residue that humanity leaves on planetary space. The contemporary artist has to handle and to adapt to Junkspace in order to create new forms and define its existence. It’s what I here intend to do. To recycle the debris and enter the urban post-modern overdose with energetic, abstract, architectonic paint, approach the suburbs of Street Art without giving in, collaborate with recycled collage like a 1950’s Mimmo Rotella, without falling in line. Our system takes over space creating a tantalizing net- work of neutral spaces, purely utilitarian, destined to be destroyed after use or pass through the inevitable upgrade, depending on budgets, crisis or fashions of the day. These dead spaces have in the 1980’s given birth to a fringe of post-urban artists, the street artists, those of my generation. But that first post-urban language, too often linked to social revolt,has ironically lost itself into consumerist fascination by lack of cohesion or self-definition. Its expression in its raw state intuitively pointed towards Junkspace. Koolhaas’s Junkspace brings an analytic link to the natural evolution of contemporary art, giving a name to a new post modern.

Mixed Media:Acrylic on Recycled

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27.6 W x 33.5 H x 0.4 D in

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