PUBLICATIONS PRESS: Copyright is history, says artist Roberto Voorbij By Alexander - Independent Creative | Writer at Overdose.am | Entrepreneur | Painter | Founder at Artists Not Armies | For feedback, tips, suggestions mail me at alexander@overdose.am What was the first time you thought: ‘I guess I’m an artist’?
PUBLICATIONS BY ROBERTO VOORBIJ: Cady Noland. The American Dream ...Noland’s work deals among other with the overall idealization of violence in American society and the crucial role which media play in this. These phenomena are being placed in a broader cultural context, as symptoms of a deep-seated malady of violence and submission. She locates it in the hero worship of (psycho-pathic) criminals, the urge for sensation and the hardening of the political debate. For every one of these examples can be found in today’s media... download pdf At this moment an increasing part of Amsterdam seems to transform into a construction site and as a result the city gets flooded with scaffolding cloth and fencing, more often then not covered with commercial communication. The 60 Layers of Cake Foundation seized this special opportunity for the initiation of the ‘Façade’-project. An art project whereby renowned artists have been asked to “make a special work for a specific (construction) location”. This “concealing art” and also reaction to the dominating advertisements in public space is exhibited throughout the whole city. For instance is on Herengracht 249 until August 15 the work ‘Supreme Territory, Glorious Building’ of Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács to be seen. On scaffolding cloth has an archetypical image of a mountain top been printed, with at the bottom of this image a from the back portrayed male figure with a prominent blue jacket. This depicted constellation of course directly brings to mind the Romantic painting “Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer” of Caspar David Friedrich. A comparable Romantic reference is the deviating choice of clothing, that is to the outfit of the main character from the first Romantic novel in history; Goethe’s ‘Die Leiden des jungen Werthers’. On closer study of Broersen and Lukács oeuvre this work appears to connect with a previous series of work, in which a parallel is drawn between Romanticism, which formed a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, and the in a rapidly changing economic and cultural situation living younger Chinese generation. Further more appears the by Goethe described blue jacket in this new version to be part of Chanel’s fall 2009 Shanghai Collection. Designed around the idea of an imagined, revolutionary China which Coco Chanel always dreamed of but never visited. Broersen and Lukács show with this work among other things how reality, (mass)media and fiction are strongly intertwined. The choice for letting exactly this duo design a scaffolding cloth is therefor certainly appropriate. The protagonist’s lacking of mountain climbing equipment as well recalls the world of advertisements, as an utter Romantic sense of uprootedness. The restyled Mao jacket thereby an apt symbol for the into an authoritarian capitalism reformed communistic planned economy of the modern China. Marketing geldt voor alle werken als het inhoudelijke uitgangspunt. De psychologie en sociologie welke achter de reclamewereld schuilgaan worden nader bestudeerd. Wat zijn exact de motieven die het handelen bepalen van zowel consument als producent? De controle- en consumptiemaatschappij wordt op de snijtafel gelegd. De verleidingsmachine blootgelegd. Het werk bestaat hoofdzakelijk uit foto-realistische UltraChrome prints welke geheel met 3d-software tot stand zijn gekomen. Een techniek welke veelal in de reclame- en architectenwereld wordt gebruikt. Deze directe aanknopingspunten met de inhoud continue reading Het geëtaleerde werk handelt over controlemechanismen, of dit nu vanuit een marketing context, welke op zichzelf reeds als zodanig kwalificeerbaar is, de groep in haar algemeen betreft, de familie, of specifieker de Nederlandse identiteit, voor allen geldt controleren of gecontroleerd worden. Deze controle komt echter al snel in conflict met de behoefte naar vrijheid, het ultieme doel van de moderne mens. Men wil controle maar beslist niet gecontroleerd worden. lees verder |