*new jpegs*
Johan Berggren Gallery and Parker Ito (US) is pleased to announce an exhibition introducing works by Chris Coy (US), Parker Ito (US), Jon Rafman (CA), Ben Schumacher (CA) and Artie Vierkant (US).
A new generation of image-makers has arisen, poised to upset established norms in the way we conceive of art objects. * new jpegs * presents five young artists working at the forefront of these changes.
The majority of cultural experience today is now mediated in some fashion, from learning how to crochet through video tutorials to keeping abreast of the latest art trends by digging through a swarm of international contemporary art blogs. For this generation traditional boundaries between object, action, and documentation has fully dissolved, leading to a set of working methods that can be seen as truly post-medium.
The works in * new jpegs * take this condition as a reference point, created to exist equally as objects in gallery space and images in circulation. After physical installation each artist has worked meticulously back into documentation photographs of the space, serving both to differentiate the experience of viewing the work on the Internet from viewing in the gallery and as a means of using the exhibition as a starting point for the creation of new images. The resulting exhibition resides somewhere between installation and collage, realisation and proposition, material and immaterial.
Download exhibition documentation here, edit, and send to Parker@ParkerIto.com to be uploaded.
