Thomas
Scheibitz
Untitled
2002 Oil on Canvas
205 x 281cm |
In Untitled Scheibitz deconstructs a suburb in all its prefab
glory. Breaking his painting down into compartmentalised units
of colour, the effect is far more sophisticated than folksy
faux naïveté: he uses painting as the human equivalent
of digital compression.
Stripped of all extraneous detail, he renders the scene as
pure codified information. Scheibitz doesn't offer a representation
of reality, rather, a universally recognisable idea of it,
reassembled into digestible shapes and Pantone hues. |