Solo Exhibition by Mark Salvatus
The Drawing Room Contemporary Art
October 15, 2011 - November 8, 2011
http://drawingroomgallery.com/
Other View is about the possibilities of art in the prosaic, as it is about the impossibility of capture: of objects and of art. Mark Salvatus brings together here work reminiscent of many others he's done before, but which are necessarily new by virtue of his interest in the transient and silent and fleeting, taking an object and all that it means and putting it into question as it highlights its utility, or makes it bigger pitted against another, or demands it make a statement in its mere existence, always in the process pointing a finger at the contemporary process of artmaking. But Other View is also ultimately about Salvatus' insistence on the spectator's experience of these objects as art as objects that are familiar and everyday, where intertextuality is default in the process of making sense of what is the ordinary turned object of art, where the gaze is the tenuous space within which the spectator finds meaning and enters a particular process of creativity. That this could mean objects being retured to their proper places, of artlessness and meaninglessness, is not so much a risk that Salvatus takes, as it is exactly the point.
Text by Katrina Stuart Santiago
