"microwave, six" Exhibition

Josee Bienvenu Gallery

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Josée Bienvenu gallery presents microwave, six, an exhibition of drawings by seventeen international artists who set up various processes of fragmentation and erosion of information. Close attention is given to execution, a concentration on the production process itself.

No pretext, no effect, no message: microwave doesn't strive to classify a new movement. However, it identifies an international group of artists who deliberately reduce their movements and expressive media. These artists imperceptibly move their fingertips to create works of precision and minimal displacement in a quasi monochromatic context: syntheses and syntactics that recall the reductionism of genetic maps or binary codes. But this intimacy doesn't require mouse or keyboard, it is a dialogue of fingertips: art positively digital. The works stand on the borderline between drawing, knitting and writing. A meticulous discipline of the close-up at the antipodes of the instantaneous and the remote control.

Since 1999, the (almost) annual edition of microwave has been an opportunity to confirm the emergence of a new attitude. As an alternative to an inhospitable era, microwave identifies an international host of artists who
commit to the obscene activity of paying attention. With intense focus, patience and precision, the artists in microwave document the relentless propagation of delicacy as a subversive activity.

[Image: Jacob Dyrenforth "Crowd #3" (2008) pencil on paper, 30 x 22 in.]

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