Ian Pedigo "Titanium Pro"
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery
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Pedigo describes his work as "a process of construction through deconstruction". Each of the works, having developed into a specific form, is then reworked perhaps several times, accumulating more information with each transformation. Traces of past stages become present as minor details, while others are discarded or covered entirely by new material. This means of working creates a relationship to archeology in that a historical process of accumulation occurs. The sculpture's history remains intact as a series of fragments, but it plays an equal role amongst imagery, the materials of it's making and traces of the artist's hand.
For this exhibition the artist's materials of choice tend to be drawn from cast off domestic building materials such as formica and particle board, and mass-produced imagery taken from magazines and calendars. The building materials, along with their scale, lend the sculptures a spatial presence that evokes architectural forms. "Titanium Pro," the show's title, draws attention to both the marketing of consumer materials and their coöpted recasting in his studio practice.
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Schedule
from March 21, 2008 to April 26, 2008