Pieter Schoolwerth “Model as Painting”

Miguel Abreu Gallery (88 Eldridge St.)

poster for Pieter Schoolwerth “Model as Painting”

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One of the clear characteristics of our digital age is that in it all things, bodies even are generally suspended from their material substance. This increasingly spectral state of affairs is the result of mostly invisible forces of abstraction that can be associated with the digitization of more and more aspects of experience. We as living beings are now confronting a structural split between the substance of things and their virtual double. To speak concretely, one can point to phenomena such as coffee without caffeine, or food without fat, for example, but also to money without currency, love without bodies, war without death, and soon following, to painting without painting, art without art, and finally, life without life…

In his soon to open exhibition Model As Painting, his sixth solo show at Miguel Abreu Gallery, Pieter Schoolwerth attempts to reverse the above mentioned cultural trend by producing a series of ‘in the last instance’ paintings, in which the stuff of paint itself reappears at the tail end only of a complex, multi-media effort to produce a figurative picture. As such, paint here is not immediately used to build up the image from the ground up, if you will, one brush stroke at a time, but rather it arrives only to mark the painting after it has been fully constituted and output onto canvas. In other words, one can safely claim that painting without painting has transformed into painting with painting in the last instance – with paint having been liberated from its fundamental depictive and expressive functions for the first time, and therefore having become truly equal to itself, that is existing as pure excess.

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from May 21, 2017 to June 28, 2017

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