Broken Down
Opening Reception: Friday, September 3rd, 2010: 6-9pm
Exhibition Dates: September 3rd – September 25th, 2010
Edmund Wyss reexamines the subject of the camera through
deconstruction and fragmentation in a new series of paintings. For
this artist, the mechanical camera symbolizes both the anachronism of
the analog and its significant historical role of representation
revealed through the medium of painting. Previously, the cohesion of
geometric parts has been used to demonstrate permanence and solidity.
In this newest body of work, these elements have been sliced in half,
reduced to their smallest parts and exploded into blackness. This
work is truly uncanny, like engineering plans reimaged by Dutch
masters. Wyss undertakes this transformation while maintaining his
signature realist precision, contrasting technical accuracy with
dramatic color and light in his paintings. The fragility of artistic
mediums, subjects and permanency are called in to question in this new
work.