In No Particular Order at Galerie Crone
We are pleased to present a new installation of “In No Particular Order” of Swedish artist Martin Gustavsson. The ongoing series of image constellations has been exhibited in London (2010) and in Gothenburg (2011) and will be now shown in Germany for the first time.
“In No Particular Order” consists of a variety of paintings arranged in a grid along the gallery walls. The continuously expanding project constitutes and defines itself with every exhibition anew, undermining predetermined structures of meaning in a contingent process of coming into being and decay. No exhibition resembles the other. There is no single underlying system of meaning at hand. Following the concept of chance, the combination and hanging of the panels is invented for every context anew, taking into account the architectural specificities of different spaces. In our current exhibition we will show more than 80 paintings, some of which were never exhibited before, forming a new constellation of “In No Particular Order”.
Gustavsson’s process based way of working is strictly anti-hierarchical. His image montages are composed of a multiplicity of paintings that refer to a complex image archive, including art historical, religious as well as pop cultural signifiers. The artist deliberately subverts common hierarchies of genre, motif or style. Almost illusionistic paintings are juxtaposed in sharp contrast with abstract geometric compositions. This inherently fragmented structure of “In No Particular Order” not only refuses the validity of one single, established narration. It also interrogates painting itself, fragmenting the very boundaries of its medium specificity. Gustavsson sabotages painting’s contemplative mode of reception. Shifting focus from the auratic original painting towards the collectivity of images in an installation, “In No Particular Order” provokes the spectator to take on an active mode of reception, bodily and intellectually alike.
GALERIE CRONE
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10969 Berlin
Germany
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