Wade Guyton
23 Apr - 22 Aug 2010
WADE GUYTON
23.4 – 22.8.2010
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Monday
Others have painted with brushes, with light, with sounds, even with metaphors. Wade Guyton paints with an inkjet printer. That sounds cool and ultra-smooth, but it's actually an unusual and exhausting affair. For such a printer, even an industrial model, is not made for such (ab)use. It is supposed to print paper. If it is fed with canvas, the printhead at times loses its grip; it produces elisions, streaks, and sometimes rips the printed material. The artist even helps such mishaps along by joggling the canvas while it's being printed.
Many of his motifs are generated with the computer, like the monochrome blocks that he has recently used for his images. Just like the new, gigantic work that Guyton will create for the large skylit hall at the Museum Ludwig: eight canvases extending over 7.60 x 1.75 meters are to fill the entire facing wall of the room. Since his printer is not equipped to handle oversizes, the artist folds the canvas lengthwise. When the one half is finished, he turns the canvas around and prints the other half. Thus a narrow white zip becomes visible where the material was folded.
Guyton's art is characterized by a frugal, highly cautious and always logically evolved vocabulary that links the abstract with the concrete, the historical with contemporary motifs. Everything that he does artistically can be traced back to technical, factual givens. This strictly anti-metaphysical viewpoint takes aim at any kind of "intuition" or "inspiration", aligning him with modernism as well as with postmodernism. Guyton makes it infinitely clear where he has found his motifs and why he has chosen their specific format. His artist's books are a further means of illuminating any lingering obscurities, of dispelling any last doubt and of establishing an art that is lucid and rational. For his exhibition at Museum Ludwig he is producing a new artist's book that will also be on sale at bookstores.
Curator: Julia Friedrich
23.4 – 22.8.2010
Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Every first Thursday of the month 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Monday
Others have painted with brushes, with light, with sounds, even with metaphors. Wade Guyton paints with an inkjet printer. That sounds cool and ultra-smooth, but it's actually an unusual and exhausting affair. For such a printer, even an industrial model, is not made for such (ab)use. It is supposed to print paper. If it is fed with canvas, the printhead at times loses its grip; it produces elisions, streaks, and sometimes rips the printed material. The artist even helps such mishaps along by joggling the canvas while it's being printed.
Many of his motifs are generated with the computer, like the monochrome blocks that he has recently used for his images. Just like the new, gigantic work that Guyton will create for the large skylit hall at the Museum Ludwig: eight canvases extending over 7.60 x 1.75 meters are to fill the entire facing wall of the room. Since his printer is not equipped to handle oversizes, the artist folds the canvas lengthwise. When the one half is finished, he turns the canvas around and prints the other half. Thus a narrow white zip becomes visible where the material was folded.
Guyton's art is characterized by a frugal, highly cautious and always logically evolved vocabulary that links the abstract with the concrete, the historical with contemporary motifs. Everything that he does artistically can be traced back to technical, factual givens. This strictly anti-metaphysical viewpoint takes aim at any kind of "intuition" or "inspiration", aligning him with modernism as well as with postmodernism. Guyton makes it infinitely clear where he has found his motifs and why he has chosen their specific format. His artist's books are a further means of illuminating any lingering obscurities, of dispelling any last doubt and of establishing an art that is lucid and rational. For his exhibition at Museum Ludwig he is producing a new artist's book that will also be on sale at bookstores.
Curator: Julia Friedrich