work hard and be nice to people: Arsewipe Still Life_Berlin 화장지 정물

archival print on canvas
160x115cm (various dimensions)

Arsewipe Still Life 화장지 정물시리즈, 2004-5
일상 생활의 물건인 화장지를 재료로 한 정물화
화장지는 건축적인 탑과 과학의 산물인 로케트 등의 형상으로 구성화되며
화장지라는 기능, 해석에 대한 반대의 뜻으로 사용되었다.
사진은 4X5 원반 필름으로 촬영되었고,
인화는 아카이브 디지털 프린트 기법으로 캔버스 천에 출력을 했고
사진의 크기는 사진에서 각 화장지가 실제 크기와 재질감을 나타나게 정해졌다.

'The beauty of being numb'

Gregory S. Maass & Nayoungim (Berlin/Antwerp)

29.04.2006 - 11.06.2006

m i n i s a l o n

ruediger belter kunstvermittlung

Landsberger Strasse 129

D-80339 Munich

A large-sized photographic reproduction that has been applied on canvas in an advanced inkjet technique. It shows a tower errected from rolls of toilet paper (four-ply, flowered) on a trefoil shaped outline on top of a very simple table in front of a wall. In one way of reading the meticulously piled rolls can be taken as an architectural model.

Construed in turn as a still life, the image parodies in its prosaic and

poor material aesthetics the conventions of a whole genre. Even when the traditional dutch still life often served as a symbolic demonstration of material wealth or of education, almost ever a memento mori was inherent in it. Not less commemorates the picture in mini salon when the hygienic item indirectly, nevertheless avowedly perkily refers to the vestige of culinary enjoyment. Furthermore the depicted pulp product in its haptic embossing subtly coquettes with the similiar structured fibre glass wallpaper in the pictures background ? As well as with the structure of the canvas surface.

(from the press release of 'The beauty of being numb' show)