- Venue
- WORKS|PROJECTS
- Starts
- Saturday, September 14, 2013
- Ends
- Saturday, October 26, 2013
- Address
- Sydney Row Bristol BS1 6UU
- Location
- South West England
Through the use of watercolour, collage, text, posters, film and sculpture, David Wojtowycz develops a highly stylised, parallel world; a world imbued with death, sex, bodily fetish and cinematic myth. Questions surrounding authorship and authenticity remain intentionally ambiguous. Appropriating images, motifs and materials from a diverse range of cultural sources, products and associations are prefabricated, re-authored and replaced with surrogates that form fragments from an idealised and seemingly excessive life that has possibly only existed via its own reproduction. Individual works are composed into suggestions of narrative cohesion through the creation of environments, often stage-like conglomerates existing between club, domestic, mausoleum and gallery space. Works hung together in lines suggest real or fictitious plots rooted in cinema. The narrative is simultaneously extrapolated and compounded by the juxtaposition of paintings with ‘found’ source materials. Film posters, magazine tears, typed notes and other archival material conjure up hybrid associations of imprecise emotions, fear and desire.
