Trust issues
Thought provoking exhibition at the Ronchini Gallery by a group of artists who question reproducible medias from traditional books to website imagery. The commentary says it is about “the inherent fallacy of today’s mass media”. No, I’m not sure what that means either but there were some interesting work. I liked Rose Salane’s sculptures based on snippets of conversation and stories heard in public spaces. As well as creating the sculpture she invents newspaper clippings to tell the story. I liked one made of the side of an iron park bench with a plaster cast of a bag on it. Augustus Nazzaro’s detailed paintings of printed documents were stunningly produced but left me wondering why! Like the previous artists I’d seen in the gallery next door he painting an image, sanding it back and painting it again with precision detail. I assume it’s saying something about repeated reproduction of images but it felt like overkill. I loved Samuel Levi Jones’s work using out of...