Exhibition
Work re-work
13 Aug 2018 – 26 Aug 2018
Event times
By appointment
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Loc.Poggio Boldrini 40
- San Giovanni dAsso
- Montalcino
Tuscany - 53024
- Italy
Travel Information
- San Giovanni dAsso
- N/a
- Asciano Monte Oliveto
Hickster Projects is delighted to present an exhibition of work by John Maybury and Alberto Mugnaini at its project space in the heart of the Crete Senesi, Italy.
About
Both artists are using existing originals as their starting point. Whether these be abandoned pieces of furniture, old pornographic images or pop videos from the 80’s. The common ground is the action of re-working, making changes that re-contextualise the original whilst leaving the primary piece much in evidence. The artist is revealed not only through their interventions, but by their choice of materia prima. A choice, that is related to personal memory, anachronistic, but through their intervention catapulted into the present. During the process of both adding and subtracting, distinguishing characteristics of the original fall away and a resurrection occurs simultaneously. Maybury’s fascination with club culture, re-working his own past footage in his film ‘Read Only Memory’ 1998 by using electronic and digital manipulation, is now painting on found pornographic images revealing lone porn stars, marooned in black. Mugnaini is sourcing mass-produced, discarded pieces of furniture and artefacts, taking them into his studio, and working them back by subtracting from the original, then painting upon them, until they take on a different form entirely, producing anthropomorphic forms that have a poetry in their new lives as dispensable but beautiful beings.