Dirk Skreber
Untitled
2000 Oil on Canvas
280 x 420cm |
Untitled
portrays an ordinary image, the kind seen in a million postcards
and magazines. Rendered on a monumental scale, Skreber reconstitutes
the mundane as the object of an all-consuming fixation. Completely
static, the painting is removed from all measurable qualities
of perception. It represents a generic stand-in for overwhelming
sensations of inadequacy and incomprehension.
Suspended in time and space, Untitled occupies an incalculable
gulf between charisma and disaster, a reflection of the numbing
state of contemporary consciousness. |