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All is porous, Vanessa Billy at BolteLang (Zurich, Switzerland)

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Daniel Gordon: “Hand, Select & Invert Layer” is on view at BolteLang in Zurich through October 8, 2016. We’re looking forward to his second solo show at M+B coming soon!

Daniel Gordon (1980, Boston, USA) is known for his colourful, patterned photographs, portraits, still lifes, and photographic abstractions printed on canvas: so-called Screen Selections. In his first solo exhibition at BolteLang Gordon will present a site-specific wallpaper installation alongside new still lifes and screen selections.

Gordon’s still lifes include classic subjects such as vessels, fruit, plants and vegetables. He culls photographic images from the Internet, combining them with his own digitally drawn motifs, and uses them to build three-dimensional tableaus, which he then photographs with an 8 x 10 view camera. After the photograph is taken, the sculptures are dismantled and background patterns are re-used to make new works. Using a manual cut-and- paste technique, Gordon builds forms that expand upon the rich history of collage and appropriation, while also nodding to the long lineage of the painted still life (Matisse’s colourful arrangements, Wiener Werkstätte textiles, Cézannes still lifes, and digital artifacts come to mind).

Gordon’s subject matter lies in a series of binaries that frequently coexist in his photographs: Wholeness and fracture, analogue and digital, classical and contemporary. These dualities are underscored through the process itself: torn edges are left raw, forms fuse and separate, teetering between completion and dissolution, machine and man.

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