Judith IV, 2015

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Still Lives, installation view at Center, Berlin / July-August 2015

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Judith III, 2015

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Judith II, 2015

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Still Lives, installation view at Center, Berlin / July-August 2015

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Still Lives, installation view at Center, Berlin / July-August 2015

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Bankers Dilemma (Bank tower model I), 2015

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Bankers Dilemma (Bank tower model I & II) (detail), 2015

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Bankers Dilemma (Bank tower model I & II) (detail), 2015

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Bankers Dilemma (Bank tower model I), 2015

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Still Lives, installation view at Center, Berlin / July-August 2015

all images courtesy of the artist and Center, Berlin

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The project space Center in Berlin is currently hosting a solo exhibition by ANTHONY SALVADOR (b. 1983, Los Angeles, US).

Entitled Still Lives, the show features a series of wall works taking as central point famous paintings by the CARAVAGGIO. The prints toy freely with the overexposed images of the masterpieces and are ornamented with aluminium bars or LED lighting strips. This body of work seems to question among others the erosion of the image and ‘the strategies of appropriation of alienated sensuous labor by the object in circulation’.

The two sculptures presented in the exhibition entitled Bankers Dilemma (Bank tower model I & II) (2015) are somewhat more ambiguous. They are composed of LED cables, prints of CARAVAGGIO’s paintings, plastic tubing, folding tables, and tire, which are assembled into a precise composition. This staging of objects as well as the wall pieces set up a dialogue between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture, the unique and the multiple, the personal and the universal.

➝ Still Lives is on view at Center in Berlin until August 9, 2015.

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* JONATHAN BELLER, The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle, 2006, p.211

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