NYAB Event - David Lefebvre "Colt Hausman"

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At Zürcher Studio
Media: Painting

First New York exhibition by David Lefebvre, a "low def" painter. [1]. The subjects are random (a nightclub, a hunting scene, a supermodel, a prefabricated building, a snow man with kitten, a portrait of a Volkswagen Beetle) and their sources unexceptional (photos cut out of magazines or taken with mobile phones, videos from YouTube, MMS messages). Insignificant in themselves, the pictorial treatment of these images as "paintings" nonetheless modifies their status, although as "works of art" they do not claim to show anything that might justify them as such. Quite the contrary – to the extent that they seem close to banality, the first thing that is visible is an "raw effect". Lefebvre paints fast, he accepts the fact that paint runs, and he leaves parts of his canvases intact. He does not seek to "do it right", even if it would be tempting to use a sophisticated technique - because his subjects do not deserve such sublimation. Lefebvre’s "low definition" painting, whose spontaneity is nonetheless free of naivety, manifests a sincerity that is touching. It appears as "the result of an ambiguous taste for things, and as blogs on MySpace, resulting from a simple appetite for gesture."

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