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I Was A Teenage Hand Model-Richard Paul |
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LONDON, ENGLAND.- The Hoxton Distillery presents today “I Was A Teenage Hand Model - Richard Paul,” on view through Sunday, October 26, 2003. Generating work that recalls product photography Richard G Paul presents us with a gloriously fake universe of hyper-real objects. The images in this show stand out of time and out of reality – existing in a slipshod yet perfectly formed state of emptied meaning and malformed non-intent. Instead of capturing a photographic moment in time Paul creates abstracted objects that become a-signifying still-lifes, dislocating themselves from any conceivable notion of cause and effect. The objects in Paul’s work display a physicality that borders on the hyper-visceral, appearing as by-products of a process that liquefies real and solid things into abstracted subliminal seductions.
Consolidating colour and form with a sleazy approach of perfect sheens and willed perfection Paul enters a realm of surreal marketing logic. Significant fluids and cheese. Your heart’s / genital’s / local branch manager’s desire. Think what you will if you can. These works only aim to provide a stimuli, it is up to the viewer to produce the response to the paradoxical displays on offer. Stuff and nonsense becomes non-sensical stuff that is exquisitely packaged and marketed, entering into an exchange ofsignal and response that disrupts its own logic of desirability. Askyourself – "Am I being [sexually / intellectually / symbolically] aroused and / or challenged by this picture?" All these things are possible and more in this world of free-floating cocktails and dental wash.
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Today's News
September 28, 2024
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Royal College of Art announces the winners of the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards for 2024
Pristine, precious first edition of 'The Lord of The Rings' trilogy rises in Heritage Auctions event
A photo booth downtown draws a nostalgic crowd
Philadelphia's BalletX shows variety but little depth
Production linked to Neil Gaiman is halted amid sexual assault claims
Lhasa's music captivated audiences everywhere but here
Francis Ford Coppola reenters a changed Hollywood. It could be rough.
Maggie Smith, grand dame of stage and screen, dies at 89
NAACP Legal Defense Fund records newly digitized and now available online from the Library of Congress
New York Film Festival pitches its ever-expanding, global tent
Clarice Rivers, earthy muse of two artists, dies at 88
Neil King Jr., who wrote of a long walk of 'renewal,' dies at 65
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