Wade Guyton

Wade Guyton studio in New York. (bron: Conceptual Fine Arts)


Wade Guyton: Untitled, 2016. Uit de tentoonstelling "Das New Yorker Atelier".

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Wade Guyton’s New York studio, a loft on the Bowery in Manhattan, houses an archive, a library, an office area and a kitchen, which serves as a gathering space for everyone who works there. A large, open space, where the printer stands, takes up the centre of the studio. Several stacks of paintings, that are continually being moved, are lined up on the long display wall. The various areas flow seamlessly into one another, raising the question of where the "creative act" actually takes place: on one of the computers or at the printer? Or while the canvas is pulled across the floor—a process that leaves traces of handling? Or perhaps when the images are viewed and sorted, arranged side by side so that they communicate with each other? The spatial, social, and political environments of the creative process, the everyday tasks, as well as the technological conditions, become the setting for the creation of the image. Wade Guyton thus updates the art-historical trope of the "artist’s studio" as an allegory of aesthetic self-reflection in an environment of digital interconnectivity.
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(bron: e-flux)