“Short Cuts” by Artist Charlie Roberts
A number of new work by American artist Charlie Roberts. At present primarily based in Oslo, Roberts’ work takes inspiration from popular culture, hiphop, comics, folks artwork, in addition to artists like Henri Matisse, James Ensor, and Florine Stettheimer. Marking his first presentation in Taipei, “Quick Cuts” affords up an investigation into what it means for the fashionable topic to develop, create, and obtain. Right here Roberts may be seen pushing his elongated figures towards a brand new register as he explores the pursuit of happiness, central to American Cinema.
“Staged to resemble photographs starting from Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused to Mary Harron’s American Psycho, Roberts’s photos mimic — whereas retaining his signature remedy of perspective — the composition and narrative openness inherent to the format of movie stills… If the cinema is claimed to be a world that exists simply adjoining to ours, then the works invite the viewers to mission themselves onto the rigorously crafted scenes. Reasonably than performing as a type of escapism, nevertheless, the projections lead proper again to the actual world; because the thematics turn out to be clear — work, labour, and the pleasure that rests in completion — the work insist upon the world we inhabit and the ambitions we mission on to it.”
See extra photos beneath or on show with WOAW Gallery on the Taipei World Commerce Heart Might 20 – twenty second.
