The Cosmic Artisan

group show:

Elena Bajo

Dieter Hammer

Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh

Gregory Polony

Artie Vierkant

Apr 20th - May 24th 2013
Siegfried contemporary Private showroom, 16 Bassett road, London W106JJ

The modern figure is not the child or the lunatic, still less the artist, but the cosmic artisan: a homemade atomic bomb. To be an artisan and no longer an artist, creator or founder, is the only way to become cosmic, to leave the milieus and the earth behind.
− Gilles Deleuze


This exhibition is the result of a co-investigation by five artists of the image’s ontology, in both its metaphysical and digital virtuality.

Curated by Bastien Rousseau.


The project started by speculating about a non-mimetic photography which for us ultimately became a false concept and transformed into a Principle of Mimetic Difference; where a photograph is considered as at once mimetic and non-mimetic, existing simultaneously within and beyond both.

The invited artists have engaged with research speculating on the possible next stage of photography on the premise of a photography whose 'picture-state' is exploded through time and space.

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The Cosmic Artisan

INSTALLATION

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The Cosmic Artisan

INSTALLATION

Spazio Luce

Alberto Di Fabio