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Post by collector on Dec 23, 2014 4:36:46 GMT -8
What do we think of his latest show at T293? If you didn´t know that the works were done by Darmstaedter you couldn´t tell. Don´t look like anything he has done before.
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Post by wimbledongreen on Dec 27, 2014 15:41:32 GMT -8
What do we think of his latest show at T293? If you didn´t know that the works were done by Darmstaedter you couldn´t tell. Don´t look like anything he has done before. I like the "1972" show currently at T293. It's an interesting group of works Darmstaedter has put together. I never thought of his work as having a "look" before and I wouldn't know the magnet works were made by the same artist as the penny works without being told (or the spam paintings, buy 10 get 1 free pieces, or the new works). Different looks and production methods. I think that the penny/pink panther/magnet works have been in production the longest, have the largest number of pieces made, and are flipped the most which is why they are the easiest to identify as Darmstaedter works at this early stage in his career. The fact that the new works "don't look like anything he has done before" isn't an issue for me. I think it's good for a young artist to not be overly reliant on a style or process. Do we really want to see the same thing from an artist five years down the road? They can settle in after their mid-career retrospective.
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Post by collector on Dec 28, 2014 8:09:31 GMT -8
I like the "1972" show currently at T293. It's an interesting group of works Darmstaedter has put together. I never thought of his work as having a "look" before and I wouldn't know the magnet works were made by the same artist as the penny works without being told (or the spam paintings, buy 10 get 1 free pieces, or the new works). Different looks and production methods. I think that the penny/pink panther/magnet works have been in production the longest, have the largest number of pieces made, and are flipped the most which is why they are the easiest to identify as Darmstaedter works at this early stage in his career. The fact that the new works "don't look like anything he has done before" isn't an issue for me. I think it's good for a young artist to not be overly reliant on a style or process. Do we really want to see the same thing from an artist five years down the road? They can settle in after their mid-career retrospective. Dear wimbledongreen, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on Darmstaedter´s work. You are right that all of his series are very different from each other. And I share your view that this isn´t a bad thing at all for a young artist. Reading your notes I was thinking what holds Darmstaedter´s work together. It is not a style or process for sure. To me it is a feeling he is trying to capture or depict. Like a desire to go back to a place that doesn´t exist anymore. A glorified past, childhood maybe. His best works like his pink panther-series seem to be playful and tragic at the same time. He is for sure a young artist who doesn´t like to repeat himself. You can´t say that about too many of his peers out there.
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Post by mose on Dec 28, 2014 8:51:23 GMT -8
I agree with both of you.
Style/process abstraction is a dead-end, for the most part. There is an overwhelming glut of it being produced by young artists, and it is staling very quickly.
With this show(IMO), Darmstaedter fully commits to thought process being more powerful than artistic process. Concept uber alles. Darmstaedter's ideas, and the exploration of his ideas, is the point of it all. The process of making the works of art, as part of this exploration, is secondary. Hell, the individual artworks themselves are secondary.
One thing is for sure. While many of his generation will become slaves to their initial success with process-based abstraction, repeating themselves ad nauseaum, Darmstaedter has shaken off that yoke early with great force.
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Post by queequeg on Jan 6, 2015 9:18:42 GMT -8
Nick was the one from the Still House I had the highest hopes for, particularly because he wasn't reliant on a process and he would do unexpected things, hard to pin down ... but still I'm really unsure of this guy. I've seen worse shows of course but the T293 show leaves me very underwhelmed. Too overthought, no raw talent on display. I see no reason why people would care about any of those works 100 years from now.
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Post by jacki on Jan 7, 2015 10:02:42 GMT -8
A step backwards
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Post by confused on Jan 24, 2015 21:19:05 GMT -8
Probably the most interesting artist of the new generation He puts pennies on canvas and thrift store magnets on panels.
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Post by collector on Mar 2, 2015 3:16:51 GMT -8
I like his current exhibition at Rodolphe Janssen. Album covers turned into abstract paintings. Shows his will to do conceptual shows. Not hundred percent sure how strong this is conceptually but he is for sure acting braver than most of the hyped artists of his generation. Here is a link to the show. www.galerierodolphejanssen.com/exhibitions/88-nick-darmstaedter/images
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Post by jacki on Mar 2, 2015 8:25:33 GMT -8
Another step backwards
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Post by guymo on Mar 3, 2015 14:02:56 GMT -8
Arghh, that is driving me mad: there's at least one other artist who has produced work of exactly that type, and I can't remember or track down where I saw it. I recall a New Order sleeve re-painted with the text removed, presumably as some kind of comment on the way Peter Saville appropriated the design of the sleeves from other designers. There were many other works of the same kind by this artist, whoever it was... I guess this was 1990s. Can anyone remember?
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Post by mose on Mar 3, 2015 14:52:22 GMT -8
Arghh, that is driving me mad: there's at least one other artist who has produced work of exactly that type, and I can't remember or track down where I saw it. I recall a New Order sleeve re-painted with the text removed, presumably as some kind of comment on the way Peter Saville appropriated the design of the sleeves from other designers. There were many other works of the same kind by this artist, whoever it was... I guess this was 1990s. Can anyone remember? It might not be your answer, but Frances Baudevin is an artist these works bring to mind.
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Post by guymo on Mar 3, 2015 23:30:03 GMT -8
Arghh, that is driving me mad: there's at least one other artist who has produced work of exactly that type, and I can't remember or track down where I saw it. I recall a New Order sleeve re-painted with the text removed, presumably as some kind of comment on the way Peter Saville appropriated the design of the sleeves from other designers. There were many other works of the same kind by this artist, whoever it was... I guess this was 1990s. Can anyone remember? It might not be your answer, but Frances Baudevin is an artist these works bring to mind. Yes!! That's it. Thank you. I think if I had recalled the other packaging-abstractions I would have tracked that down more easily; but I didn't. I have a very hard time knowing what to make of the Darmstaedter pieces in light of that previous work.
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Post by collector on Mar 4, 2015 13:34:45 GMT -8
Dear guymo, I share your feeling. I am not sure what to make of the recent show. I like these works. But it is hard to tell where he is going, what his work is about. And I think Darmstaedter doesn´t care about that. He doesn´t want to be the next Lucien Smith. He stopped the penny paintings, he only did a few of the Pink Panthers (his greatest works so far in my opinion). He is an artist in the making. Not your average crapstractionist. That´s for sure.
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 14, 2015 18:01:01 GMT -8
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