Cayetano Ferrer: Chicago art show

Artist Cayetano Ferrer, best known to BB readers for photographing the landscape hidden by billboards and street signs and pasting those images on the signs, has a new show of work opening Friday at the ThreeWalls gallery in Chicago. The show runs until October 13 and there are several images from the exhibition on Cayetano's site. For example, seen here is a photo of an installation where Cayetano resurfaced a cardboard box on the street to show what it obscures.

From the description of the show, titled Eight Corners:

Ferrer uses existing forms in order to engage in a dialog about the constant flux of the built, contemporary environment. Using inkjet prints on existing objects/architecture that reveal what these objects ultimately obscure, Ferrer exposes the relationship between the built and the rebuilt, surface and hidden, as well the delicate matter of history and memory as the present paves over the recent past in a bid to enrich economies. Ferrer’s work is a gentle push/pull between permanence and obsolescence, inviting consideration of evolution, mutation and modification in our relationship to our immediate environment

Link

Previously on BB:
• Billboard made "transparent" Link
• Cayetano Ferrer's "erased" products displayed on city street Link
• Transparent street signs Link

[#1 posted by Anonymous , September 6, 2007 7:23 AM]

"Ferrer uses existing forms in order to engage in a dialog about the constant flux of the built, contemporary environment. ... Ferrer exposes the relationship between the built and the rebuilt, surface and hidden, as well the delicate matter of history and memory as the present paves over the recent past in a bid to enrich economies."

Wow. All that out of "I take a picture and paste it back onto the object. It's cool, provided you view it at precisely the right angle." I have a feeling the only economy it's enriching is the one in his bank account.

[#2 posted by Anonymous , September 6, 2007 8:56 AM]

An interesting exercise with a +cool factor but anything that requires that much explanation shouldn't be called art.

[#3 posted by blackking , September 6, 2007 9:35 AM]

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[#4 posted by Anonymous , September 6, 2007 2:46 PM]

The description is such a load of pseudo-intellectual bullshit.