#henry codax

[mentaltimetraveller]

Henry Codax

[gregdotorg]

Wolfgang Tillmans donated this laser print edition made as a fundraiser for Chisenhale Gallery as a fundraiser for 100 Artists for Gaza, to support Médecins sans Frontieres.

FWIW, one of the 100 artists, Henry Codax, is fictional, a creation of one, two or more people. So idk if that's 99 Artists for Gaza, or 101 Artists and 2-3 Dealers for Gaza, or what.

100 Artists for Gaza, If You Count Henry Codax [greg.org]

image: Wolfgang Tillmans, Chisenhale Edition, 2011, via 100 Artists for Gaza

[gregdotorg]

You may know Henry Codax from the giant monochrome paintings exhibited under his fictitious name by an anonymous collaboration of other art world denizens who got the character from a novel published by another fictitious artist and gallerist run by a corporation.

But now at Everybody, a gallery in Tucson Henry Codax is revealed to be an artist who does all that by showing paintings of QR codes that link to a monochrome webpage. It is at once a breakthrough, and a continuity, decoding what this project has been about all along.

images: henry codax, 2023 installation view from everybody.gallery; screenshot of untitled (b6688f), 2023 via henrycodax.com/b6688f.html

[matthewfeyld]

What About The Color Pink? Do You Like Pink?

Gallery view from left to right

Henry Codax, Untitled, n.d., 213 x 213 cm Valérian Goalec, Untitled, 2016, concrete and vase, various dimensions Matthew Feyld, Untitled, 2016, acrylic, pigments and modeling paste on canvas over panel, 40,5 x 40,5 cm Olivier Mosset, Untitled, 2010, 122 x 122 cm

http://www.geukensdevil.com/

[matthewfeyld]

What About The Color Pink? Do You Like Pink? 

03/12/16 - 15/01/17

http://www.geukensdevil.com/

[sunjongpyo]

henry codax

[sunjongpyo]

henry codax

[cosimaccarbon-blog]

This week, the 13th edition of Documenta, the art festival that arrives every five years in the small German city of Kassel, opens to the public, and over the course of its 100-day run it is expect...

A really interesting article about authorship in today’s art world. I especially like the part about Henry Codax, which is a nice story; a story in the sense that it navigates between reality and fiction, it blurs the limits between them.

I feel like those frontiers are blurred anyway. In today’s world, this manifests through technologies. Technologies have a close link with individuality and even identity.

You can link your smartphones to your email or facebook accounts to synchronize your contacts, agendas, etc. But this inter-connection needs an element in common and this element is the identity of the owner.

Even if it hasn’t necessarily your name: you are your facebook account, your gmail account, your twitter account, your youtube channel, your tumblr account, etc.

In this cybermediatic context, what is real and what is fictive? Is this distinction even relevant anymore?