Mark

EXPANDING PAINTING.


Studio wall install.


Painting is dead. Long live Painting.
Painting can ‘fuck right off’. All hail Painting the ‘King of Art’.
Oh Painting you are so old and tired.
Hey Painting, this is fun and new and funky and all that.
On repeat. A locked groove.
The fable of ‘The Baby and the Bath water’.
The baby is bruised and upset. The bathroom is soaking wet.
The mirror is steamed up. The soap is impregnated with hairs…




Expanded titles.


“I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialised concerns, working themes, or variations that lead to mastery. I steer clear of definitions. I don’t know what I want. I am inconsistent, non-committal, passive; I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty.”

Gerhard Richter.


“First you’ll close your eyes to the pictures. Then you’ll close your eyes to the memory.
Then you’ll close your eyes to the facts. Then you’ll close your eyes to the entire context”. Harun Farocki.


Thoughts on expanded painting and studio practise - essay.