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Group Show at Vin Vin

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#NHLVideos: Unveiled by Smashfest - Episode 3: Kevin Hayes and Cale Makar design ping-pong tables

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Simon Denny, Multimedia Double Canvas Progression, 2009

“That this makes digital devices morphologically very close in form as well as function to a painting is succinctly demonstrated in a work by Simon Denny, Multimedia Double Canvas Progression (2009), in which the artist commercially printed the home screens of various televisions onto cheap pre-stretched canvases available for almost nothing at any art supply or craft store. In these it is most remarkable exactly how absent a painting discourse is from our engagement with these cheap inkjet printed canvases. 

Tracking the evolution of television size over the span of about fifteen years, for each television Denny placed two identical canvases parallel to one another and joined them with steel poles, miming the dimensions of the television in question. He does this on down to the present, with the space between the panels getting smaller and smaller to the point where a single canvas will do. The canvas and the flatscreen have become quite literally one and the same.”

From Surface, Image, Reception: Painting in a Digital Age, Alex Bacon, Rhizome, 2016

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Math Bass and Sean Kennedy at 24/7, Monte Carlo

Installation view

Curated by Alex Bacon & Harrison Tenzer for Rail Curatorial Projects

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JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNADET, STUDIES FOR SUNSETS

TEXT BY ALEX BACON

KARMA, NEW YORK 2014

96 PAGES, HARDCOVER

EDITION OF 500

9.5 X 8 INCHES (24 X 20 CM)

$ 25 PURCHASE

PHOTOS

— "The flag and the sunset: in the incessantly, flowing, morphing, and convulsing sea of images we encounter on a daily basis as citizens of the twenty-first century, these are two of the most conventional and familiar." Chronicling the appearance of flags and sunsets in the artwork of Frederic Edwin Church, through the Impressionist and Pop movements, to the present day—including Bernadet's own series of sunset paintings (a direct reference to Church)—STUDIES FOR SUNSETS looks at the relationship of the two familiar images and how their combination creates a unique significatory instability in the artist's work. 

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"People like to speak today as if it is the market that paints these paintings." - Alex Bacon in conversation with Jarrett Earnest about the speculative market for so-called New Abstraction.

Read more → 'Who’s Afraid of the New Abstraction?' (via SFAQ)

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THIS KID IN MY ENGLISH CLASS IS RELATED TO KEVIN BACON

How nice do I have to be to get him to let me meet Kevin BACON