NYAB Event - Scott King "The Trial Continues"

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At Bortolami
Media: Painting, Sculpture

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Scott King's work is blunt, in a subtle way. He takes the visual economy of postmodernist consumerism to a tipping point of aggressive clarity, where it starts cannibalizing itself as a paradoxical form of affirmative self-reflection. Proclaiming the Death to the New, King puts an end to the Fordist phantasma of eternal progress and ushers in the confused and confusing Age of the Bastard.
Scott King's work is governed by the idea of a viral aesthetics of the parasitic. He works from inside the system, making use of the organs of the host in order to bring it down with its own means. Following in the footsteps of situationist image politics and the graphic heritage of punk, King amalgamates the signifiers of our contemporary mediascapes in bastardized icons that celebrate the disease of their own origin. The question to be asked is less who or what we
vote for, but rather how to cause an affray of words and images that raises the stakes of our
contemporary confusion.

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