Untitled (Sonic Youth I), de la série We're treating each other just like strangers
Artist:
Meredyth Sparks
Date:
2005
Medium:
Digital scan
Materials:
Glitter, Aluminium
Collection:
Lafayette anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Domain:
Peinture
Obsessed with the imagery of pop and rock music icons of the 1970s and 1980s, Meredyth Sparks appropriates a photograph of the four members of Sonic Youth, a band formed in 1981, in a collage that seeks to blur the line between two antagonistic pictorial tendencies: figuration and abstraction. Pictured from below, the musicians become blurred silhouettes trapped in an overblown environment: glued glitter and aluminium strips saturate an image that has been scanned and retouched until it becomes illegible. The represented subject thus disappears behind the formal structure of the work, its symbolic content altered by the transgression. For its graphic treatment as much as for the ideas it conveys, Meredyth Sparks’s collage can be compared to the Russian constructivist paintings of the early twentieth century.
Text written by Elea Dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Elea Dargelos as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
We’re treating each other just like strangers
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (France)
from 05 Dec 2006 to 25 Jan 2007
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (France)
from 05 Dec 2006 to 25 Jan 2007
Antidote 2
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006
La Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
from 27 Oct to 09 Dec 2006