Past: Anne Speier

"a troll in a mall, among so much digitally rendered beauty."

Anne Speier at Neue Alte Brücke,  Anne Speier at Galerie der Stadt Schwaz,

Anne Speier at Galerie der Stadt Schwaz

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Hulking materialism vs digital plasticity. Bodies, which we now consider abject troll-like objects, vs an arabesque virtual purity. We're basically covered in mud in comparison to digital asepsis. The overly literal juxtaposition hammers the point to excess, we can "read" into these in so many academically uninteresting ways, the point is that this is what it feels to be a human today, a troll in a mall, among so much digitally rendered beauty.

create two lists of
adjectives for each half
and have yourself a poem


See too : Anne Speier at Neue Alte Brücke

Anne Speier at Neue Alte Brücke

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Scanner art, of Guyton\Walker, Stahl, et. al, assimilated images of a new found visual physicality ala mode. The ice cream weight of objects reproduced in spectacular resolution delivering a “realness” reserved for the plastic world of Advertising and Bouguereau. The eye’s intoxication in overload bordering on psychedelic.  As Speier's literal minded paintings juxtapose, this overload of retinal pleasure is a real version of the world’s cartoonification, reality stretched to meet its new digital overlords welcomed, the computer’s vision more real than our own, and everyone stressed, cracks, falling over laughing.

See too : "Puddle, pothole, portal" at Sculpture Center , Amanda Ross-Ho at Approach