PAWEL ALTHAMER

"The exhibition is inhabited by a spectral and unexpected presence: the artist has searched for his elderly double, a person whose physical appearance resembles that of Althamer in thirty years time. The artist’s Self-portrait as an Old Man is free to wander around the exhibition space, a living sculpture linking the past and future of his life."
VALERIO CARRUBBA - BILLY REYNOLDS


".....oils on steel, whose internal structure consists of being painted twice: each one is in fact, the exact replica of itself, obtained through a second layer of paint that covers and reproduces perfectly the first one lying below.
To amplify such a condition of circularity and self-reference of language, the titles of the paintings contribute: So many dynamos, Delia failed, Nina Ricci ran in and Murder for a jar of red rum. They are palindrome phrases, which are phrases that can be read, indifferently, from right to left, or vice versa, remaining unchanged......."
To amplify such a condition of circularity and self-reference of language, the titles of the paintings contribute: So many dynamos, Delia failed, Nina Ricci ran in and Murder for a jar of red rum. They are palindrome phrases, which are phrases that can be read, indifferently, from right to left, or vice versa, remaining unchanged......."

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ANIBAL LÒPEZ / A-1 53167

"1 Tonelada de libros tirada sobre la avenida de la reforma" (2003)
"........“El Préstamo” (the Loan) where a gun-toting A-1 53167 stages an armed robbery by attacking an unwitting passer-by? The stolen money was to fund an exhibition at the "Contexto" space and thus turn the victim into sponsor and the spectator into an accomplice in the event." (2000)
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