Dirk Skreber - Contemporary Artists

Untitled

Dirk Skreber, Untitled The Saatchi Gallery
 

Dirk Skreber

Untitled

2002
Foam and tape on wood

250 x 150cm

Untitled presents a conflict between presence and absence. Lines cut in relief through a sensuous layer of foam play ‘peepshow', suggesting the outline of a sultry tattoo motif. Referring to the voyeuristic act of looking through blinds or the low quality transmission of video footage, Skreber distances the viewer from an intimate reading. Instead, the familiar emblems of sexuality and kitsch simply become a problem of design. Seductive only in the materials of its making, the image floats intangibly between foreground and back. Skreber paints desire neutralised in a nowhere space.
 
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