Wade Guyton: Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer – An Exhibition of Inkjet Drawings at the Secession
This exhibition explores Guyton's minimalist abstract compositions on magazine pages, questioning appropriation and originality through inkjet art.
The exhibition 'Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer' at the Secession showcases small-format works by American artist Wade Guyton. Explore his unique process of using an inkjet printer to overlay abstract compositions onto pages torn from art and lifestyle magazines. These pieces prompt contemplation on themes of appropriation, originality, and the inherent fluctuations of digital printing. Guyton’s method embraces mechanical chance to challenge traditional art production.
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Exhibition summary
This exhibition features small-format works by US artist Wade Guyton, characterized by a minimalist formal vocabulary. Guyton uses an inkjet printer to overlay abstract compositions onto pages torn from art, architecture, and lifestyle magazines, exploring themes of appropriation and originality.
Curatorial context
The exhibition 'Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer' (Drawings for a Small Room) at the Secession showcases small-format works by the American artist Wade Guyton. Guyton's artistic practice involves using a standard inkjet printer to overprint abstract compositions onto pages torn from old art, architecture, and lifestyle magazines. The resulting works are characterized by the qualitative fluctuations inherent in the printing technique, such as tears, creases, varying ink saturation, and missing areas.
Guyton's method embraces a form of mechanical chance, yielding results that are not always fully intended. His work prompts contemplation on the production aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, as well as the concepts of appropriation, originality, and contemporary manifestations of everyday copying and re-insertion. The exhibition specifically highlights a five-part installation in the Graphic Cabinet, adapting his method to the exhibition space by 'overwriting' already printed paper that he selects seemingly at random, often while waiting for a print job to complete. This exhibition is closely related to a show previously held at Galerie Capitain Petzel in Berlin, with a notable difference being the color of the floor tiles in the exhibition space, which Guyton deliberately changed from blue to red for the Secession presentation.
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Wade Guyton: Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer key exhibition facts
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Venue
Secession
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
May 27, 2011 – Aug 21, 2011
Artist line / attribution
Wade Guyton, born 1972 in Hammond (USA), lives and works in New York.
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