| offerings to the altar: ritualistic still life [2019] | When working on a still life, the artist will gather different items to compose a scene to be portrayed. In the process, new items can be introduced and other items may be dismissed as the artist prepares the composition. For this exhibition, a still life was assembled where different items were hot-glued to a shoe box, making it unchangeable and transportable. This is the “Nature Morte Prêt à Emporter”. Where once the artist would select items to place in the still-life, now we have a still life that can be placed into different contexts. In a hope to break the banality that is inherent to this form of art, the dialectic of the still life with portrait and with landscape was explored. This process allowed for the breakdown of the elements in their original composition as well as the introduction of different elements, like the skeleton of a dead bird, a cat, an arrangement of obelisks offered to an obsolete deity and even the human body. In our origins, art was produced with a cultic value. Art was made for the gods and later for God. In so, its cultic existence was more important that it being viewed. The “Nature Morte Prêt à Emporter" is an object of ritual, however, its purpose is to allow for its representation in different settings and with different mediums. The “Painting of a Photograph of the NMPE” is not a representation on oil of the actual, but painting in oil from a photographic representation of the actual. The works in this exhibition attempt this re-processing of representation. In this, the “Nature Morte Prêt à Emporter” becomes an offering, an object of ritual; only to later be exhibited and exposed to the public. This exhibition was shown at Simart gallery, Ålesund - Norway.
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| nature morte pret a emporter - variable size - assemblage of found objects. | |
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| nmpe - 35 x 45 cm - two-color lithograph. | |
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| portrait & still life - 28 x 36 cm - c-print from a 4x5 negative. | |
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| lunch on the grass - 30 x 40 cm - photographic print from a 6x7 negative on selenium toned fiber base paper. | |
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| painting of a color photograph of the nmpe - 40 x 50 cm - oil on canvas. | |
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| le chat achete une nature morte pret a emporter - 35 x 42 cm - photographic print from a 6x7 negative on fiber base paper. | |
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| lunch on the grass - 90 x 130 cm - oil on canvas. | |
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| nature tres morte i - 40 x 50 cm - photographic print from a 6x7 negative on fiber base paper. | |
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| nature tres morte ii - 40 x 50 cm - photographic print from a 6x7 negative on fiber base paper. | |
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| still life - 20 x 30 cm - etching, drypoint and mezzotint on copper printed on copper paper - edition of 3 + a.p. | |
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| offering at the altar - 8.5 x 11 cm - lambda reproduction of an instant photograph - edition of 3 + a.p. | |
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| offering at the "obelisks" temple - 28 x 30 cm - etching - edition of 3 + a.p. | |
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| nature morte pret a emporter en balade - 30 x 45 cm - c-print from a 35mm negative - edition of 3 + a.p. | |
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| still life with bones - 35 x 45 cm - two-color lithography - edition of 3 + a.p. | |
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| representation of the nature morte pret a emporter through eleven macro analog photographs - 60 x 70 cm (variable) - 11 c-prints from 35mm negative - edition of 3 + a.p. |