"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Operetta" (2006)
"Operetta," 2006
Cel vinyl and aerosol enamel on gessoed canvas over panel, 86 x 102 inches. Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio.
Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Cel vinyl and aerosol enamel on gessoed canvas over panel, 86 x 102 inches. Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio.
Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
"This is not a simulation of anything; it is a highly artificialized moment of representation. The painting has always been relentless about that. In the same way that you have to have that type of negotiation when as a contemporary viewer you go to an opera, there has to be a complete understanding and accepting of the whole mannerist endeavor or else you’re just not going to enjoy it. All the paintings set up this intense mannerism. Everything is hyperbolized and highly decorated. And the decoration is decorated...The work doesn’t shy away from that. It’s not about naturalism on any level."
- Lari Pittman
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