Dirk
Skreber
Untitled
2003 Oil on Canvas
300 x 170cm |
Aerial
views of surveillance photography and replication of print
media are antiseptic placebos of intimacy: unnatural modes
of viewing that have become instantaneously familiar, an essentially
indifferent way of experiencing the world. Skreber doesn't
strive for photorealism, yet his work borrows from the tropes
of mechanical reproduction. Translated into painting, these
devices are uncanny. Untitled, a spectacle of catastrophe,
becomes a cerebral deliberation of poetic form through Skreber's
intervention. |