'Dreamlands' is anthology of images documenting the transient and intangible world of television. The pictorial elements, taken from video are translated into the painted medium: the fleeting image seen flickering on TV screens the world over takes on a new reality. This partly banal pictorial iconography could have both cryptic and documentary significance to the future as we have no way of telling how our mass- media based culture will survive the centuries. The paintings (screenshots), exhibited in the manner of a TV-wall are interchangeable or 'zappable'. The result is a fast-moving, picture- zapping, hybrid image-attack reflecting all aspects of global existence. Utopian dreams, disturbing realities, banalities and absurdities interact creating new tensions and allowing new interpretations to arise. 'Dreamlands' is an attempt to redefine a symbiology in danger of stagnation. The iconology is left at the discretion of the viewer under the premise it is not the voice that commands the story but the ear. We are thus challenged to give up our passive role of 'watching' and to actively deal with today's image overload.
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Date of Birth: 12.07.1967
Place of Birth: Swansea, Wales, G.B.
Nationalities: British / German / North American
EDUCATION:
1985-88 BA Fine Art/ Art History, University of London, Goldsmiths College
1991-93 Photo-Video course, Tower Hamlets College + London Film-makers
Co-op, London
WORK:
1988-91 self-employed designer, London.
1991-95 art director for Chromatose Films, London, specialising in music
videos for MTV and ITV and independent animation shorts.
Since 1996 working artist, Berlin, Germany.
EXHIBITIONS / GERMANY:
2001 Reality, pussy galore art gallery, Berlin 2000
Hedges, contact:c4 / pussy galore art gallery, Berlin
dreamlands, pixel park, Berlin
rocket art maou-maou gallery, Berlin
moving up, Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin
Z 2000 / present representation Academy of Art Berlin / contact:c4, Berlin
die 18 Bahnen of the, bewegungselite Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
the return of the bewegungs elite, Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin
1999 playroom berlin, Galerie Thor Zimmermann, Cologne
"World of Game", contact:c4 in Meinblau, Berlin
Welt 99, Lightbox for contact:c4, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Pure Honey, Kunstsalon, Komische Oper, Berlin
1998 Honig, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
Blut + Blumen, contact:c4, Berlin 1996
Paulas Reich, Kunst-Mitte Festival, Berlin