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A bunch of guys are enjoying a dog fight on yet another sunny day Painting
United Kingdom
Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60.2 W x 47.6 H x 0.8 D in
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BAD PAINTING is a series of conceptual paintings that I would like to categorize as Bad Realism which is work that is bad in terms of style, craftsmanship & content. The badly executed paintings represent the underlying bad realism of the actions depicted. Bad paintings that represent various real-life atrocities committed by humans.The work challenges the Western sense of beauty, perfectionism and fear of failure. I personally find the making of this work very liberating as I am not restricted in terms of how I paint as I am not bound to any rules of painting. Rooms are distorted, bodies are out of proportion, shadows fall into the wrong direction, compository elements are disregarded etc. ==> images below This is not to compare with Tucker's Bad Painting exhibition in the 70s => more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Painting Jay Rechsteiner’s Bad Paintings (2013) brings the horrors of human culpability front and center. We don’t have to look too far to see the atrocities within our communities. Turn on the news, take an extended walk through familiar streets. Sadness and pain are everywhere. Rechsteiner states that his “main interest [is] in the underlying structure of things [and how] his artworks directly respond to the surrounding environment and . . . everyday experiences.” We so often look for beauty in everything. Why not accept the ugliness of misery? Confront it and learn how to deal with it? Rechsteiner wrestles with these ideas in his studio and asks the same of his viewer. He wishes to “demonstrate how life extends beyond [our] own subjective limits,” to tell “a story about the effects of global cultural interaction,” and “the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves.” John Ros, GalleryEll Also check out the online exhibition Figur|e|ations curated by John Ros: http://galleryell.com/exhibitions/figureation/ => our existenial moment http://jayrechsteiner.com/bad_painting.htm
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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:60.2 W x 47.6 H x 0.8 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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My work is very versatile, in general process-based and sits at the intersection of different practices. However, I enjoy painting the most as it not only allows me to express my ideas most directly but it is also a great tool to explore and develop ideas. My painting work investigates pictorial composition and aesthetics with a focus on the notion of the concrete and the abstract, clash, balance, anarchy & the dialogue between opposites. My work is very versatile, in general process-based and sits at the intersection of different practices. An essential aspect of process is the element of change including new directions and abandonment (of work) which gives my work a seemingly peripatetic character. The quality of my work is not so much within the single pieces of work but rather in my overall approach and understanding. One of my principle interests lies in social constructionism, the analysis and documentation of (cultural, social) heritage, i.e. the (social, political, cultural and historical) makeup of people. Whether it manifests itself in the form of a drawing, a collage, a painting, an installation, an action or any other medium, my work is never so much about the discrete unit of work but rather the work as a part of the gesamtkunstwerk, the gesamt-story. My understanding of the gesamtkunstwerk in its truest sense is the entirety of my work as a cohesive body. It is very important to me that my work represents myself, my way of thinking and my opinions. Staying true to myself and having integrity is a very important aspect of my practice. I don't produce art for the masses, nor have I any desire to ride on the band wagon of current trends in the contemporary art world. I am currently working on a painting series titled Delphine & Jay: the Concrete & the Abstract. These are process-based works on canvas & paper. The work explores as the title suggests concrete and abstract ideas/concept focusing on clash, balance, anarchy & the dialogue between opposites.
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