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Mike Bidlo
The Fountain Drawings
September 19 - October 24, 1998
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Tony Shafrazi Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of Mike Bidlo's The Fountain Drawings. This accumulative work of five years represents an intense visual investigation inspired by Marcel Duchamp's Fountain of 1917. The black and white drawings are all vastly different in style and technique with almost infinite variations between accurate representation and gestured expression. They vary from spontaneous sketches to heavy gouaches to Rorschach impressions.
Since the early eighties, Mike Bidlo has re-enacted and duplicated the whole process of art-making that a select group of artists had used to make their work. He has pursued a very complex and elaborate way of working, where he has focused on a series of artists that he admires who represent the seminal icons of this century. In each case he has remained faithful to the measurement of each painting and to the process by which each work was originally created, this process varying tremendously from Picasso to Pollock to Warhol.
Bidlo's Fountain Drawings represent a big leap forward in the oeuvre of his work. After many years of restrained apprenticeship, he has finally broken loose, freely improvising on the fountain's form, taking license and privilege to study and rediscover the Fountain.
This ground-breaking exhibition, organized in conjunction with a simultaneous show at the Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, will be accompanied by a definitive 344 page publication on this body of work.
Please contact Hiroko Onoda for further information.
The Fountain Drawings
September 19 - October 24, 1998
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Tony Shafrazi Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of Mike Bidlo's The Fountain Drawings. This accumulative work of five years represents an intense visual investigation inspired by Marcel Duchamp's Fountain of 1917. The black and white drawings are all vastly different in style and technique with almost infinite variations between accurate representation and gestured expression. They vary from spontaneous sketches to heavy gouaches to Rorschach impressions.
Since the early eighties, Mike Bidlo has re-enacted and duplicated the whole process of art-making that a select group of artists had used to make their work. He has pursued a very complex and elaborate way of working, where he has focused on a series of artists that he admires who represent the seminal icons of this century. In each case he has remained faithful to the measurement of each painting and to the process by which each work was originally created, this process varying tremendously from Picasso to Pollock to Warhol.
Bidlo's Fountain Drawings represent a big leap forward in the oeuvre of his work. After many years of restrained apprenticeship, he has finally broken loose, freely improvising on the fountain's form, taking license and privilege to study and rediscover the Fountain.
This ground-breaking exhibition, organized in conjunction with a simultaneous show at the Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, will be accompanied by a definitive 344 page publication on this body of work.
Please contact Hiroko Onoda for further information.
