New Work Friday #34

New Work Oct 23, 2009 No Comments
Bernie Slater, Word Situations 2, 2009.
Colour photocopy on 1971 Mike Parr artwork


Bernie Slater,
Word Situations 2, 2009.
Detail.



Bernie Slater,
Word Situations 2, 2009.
Detail.

“This work was created for Canberra Contemporary Art Space’s annual members’ show, where this year’s theme was “Fakes, Forgeries and Appropriations”. I’ve printed on some original works from Mike Parr’s 1971 series Word Situations , which Parr states are “concerned with my investigation into the problem of meaning and language” I wanted to contrast Parr’s work with my own investigation of how language, graphic design and mass media are used to shape our behaviour and create new cultural “structures” of their own. Plus, I liked the idea of destroying a Mike Parr artwork,” – Bernie Slater 2009.

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