"Bad News" Peter White Gallery Gelman

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Opening December 17, 2008, 19:00

Peter White explores modernity as a future cultural layer, constructed of post-industrial everyday life, from the waste of civilization.

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The realization of our time through the investigation of mass production, in which all of globalized production streams and cropping of millions of pairs of shoes are global waste management, explains the view of modernity as archeology of the future. We live in a global society waste. In such materials already have a past life, and the artist develops their plastic, use them to create their objects. For him the important idea urbanistichnosti, the artificiality of the material. He explores the materials of our environment, and specifically in this project - the properties of rubber, its color, texture, plasticity. In general, "bad news" could be called "a study of rubber. Materials here not less than the expansion of art into the territory of non-standard of materiality. I like the privatization of the material have analogues in the history of art - especially Boyce, after which it became impossible to work with felt, without risking being accused of influence. White talks about his love for the material and the religious atmosphere of the giant factory shops, often dilapidated, employing several people. That's what a former rubber factory "Red Triangle", which gave the artist the material for a new project - rubber bands of different sizes, the waste of actual production.

The "bad news" plastically stern and laconic. Visually, this contrast of black and white, light plywood and black rubber. This seems to be the first draft of the gallery M & S Gelman, specifically working with non-trivial space, installation of gallery decisive emptiness. It includes five installations, linked by a common material as a starting point for reflection. The central architectural installation begins at the gallery ceiling, above the central pillar, which are collected in a common node strained rubber cords - they seemed to wrest from the sky, piercing the wall at different heights and fills almost the entire space. Strained bundles invade the house, and rushing inside the walls, bringing destruction. They aggressively materializing sound. Plastic elastic rubber blackness becomes a silent medium of our time. The artist is trying to cleanse itself of verbiage does not use more than two materials in one project. Photography, grass, sticks, earth excluded.

A compelling visual oxymoron - three rubber bell - an understandable way connected with the news. Peter White creates a sense of crisis, the pre-war radio.
Another installation reflects the current state of the recent feast - we see a rubber runway, the piles of rubber waste - black woven bundles of different thickness - creeping up, threatening fill the space. Installation of rubber objects, reminiscent of greasy work clothes in the locker - perhaps made the most technically indisputable. Beautiful light object on the wall where the light streaming through the rubber blacks, like the dense, written in ink by hand lines and at the same time - conceptualist experiments Jane Holzer. All of these installations one way or another refer to the name of the project, while remaining a pure formalism, which is read in recognition of the artist's love of American minimalism 70. In each new project, White is looking for ideas and material coincidence. His remarks coincide with the real work, so in his installations, no heroes.

Of course, there is a new project in the context of the crisis, which imposes the actual reading and its brutal cuts clearly an important point. Artist rightly considered a disaster for the obvious reading of the work. He feels that art can not be relevant in media terms - in this art, he does not see self-plasty, a new aesthetic is born slowly, simply is not comparable in speed to the rhythm of the news. Therefore, the project, for all the relevance of its name, it is indirectly linked to the current situation. This experiment is too ambitious for a studio and therefore solvable in the gallery - a self-contained plastic experiment times of crisis.