Andree Carter

at Ann Connelly Fine Art

Bridge to Nowhere

People do strange things. They tend to waste time on useless hobbies. They create small guarded environments where they do virtual things that nobody seems to care about (the red bold figures). But some of them do it to escape gruesome reality they are living in (the black figures). Others are doing it to connect to people (thin red lines and leaks). They create networks of connections. Connections make the lives of people involved and lives of all people  much more interesting and varied.

Weekend Edition 30

Paul Cezanne

The Cards Players, 1892

The players are the regulars in the place. They are relaxed. A lomg night of card playing is ahead of them. The players are concetrated on the game, because the game is the only enertainment in their life. They are simple people, their life is simple. They don't have hobbies, they don't have interests. They work. They earn money. They survive. The meetings at the card table in the joint is the best thing that happens in their life.

Janaina Tschäpe

Janaina Tschäpe at Carlier Gebaue(Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Staubwolke

Entertainment is an universe in itself : celebrities, gossips, games and new releases. It is very tempting and mesmerizing. It can keep you busy for hours.By diving deep in this ant house you can forget the main purpose of it - to fill the void. The entertainment is a veil to cover up a vast empty dessert(the bottom part of background reds and oranges). The question is whether it is good or bad. And the answer probably depends on what kind of entertainment you are using to waste your life on.

Leon Polk Smith

Leon Polk Smith at Washburn Gallery (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Little Doggies at Night

This is Saturday night entertainment. Night(black rectangles). Bars(yellow rectangles), doors(big background rectangles), car lights(red rectangles). Red wine (burgundy rectangle in the lower left corner). Balancing in the gray area. Tipsy. Some  things you will remember only later, if at all, and black and white hangover(top row of rectangles with white figures).

Ana Sacerdote

Ana Sacerdote at Galería Jorge Mara – La Ruche (Art Basel Miami Beach 2011)

Untitled

This is Entertainment. The big orange structure is the veil. Behind(actually inside) it there is a stage.The orange color shows the merry, childish character of entertainment. The background is white with washed out blood - entertainment is not always merry. On the stage you see doors(the rectangles). The doors are problems, questions and dilemmas that the good entertainment  puts inside of recreation.Not all doors are easy to spot. Some of them are created by overlapping doors. One of them is put in the very corner (right bottom one). Hints, insinuations, associations are common place in entertainment.




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