plutschow gallery
&My second show at Plutschow Gallery was born when I asked Roman if he also wanted a "Μέμωρι" exhibition similar to the one I was doing with Valentina Bonomo in Rome. "I like the drawings- said Roman- but everything you´ll be showing at my gallery should be for sale" (the Μέμωρι drawings are to be given away to collectors without money involved). Ok I said, let´s then do Drawings Quasi Paintings. These will be drawings that differently to the Μέμωρι are "art"" for sure-meaning they are about what my work is about: portraits of humanity involved with computers. (Μέμωρι instead is about life..). You have them ready? Roman asked. I"ll call you back tomorrow_I said- , shout down my computer and start contempating the day I was painting my computer screen paintings, my videogame paintings, my cable paintings.. After a while, I start going around in my studio and opening envelopes. There it was.. an envelope Vanessa Beecroft had send me a few days earlier.. It contained the prints I was using back in the 90´s to paint my paintings. I picked one of them, placed it on the light-table, grabbed the first paper I could find and start making a drawing that was "quite a painting"- meaning that I could have just made that drawing instead of painting the whole large canvas and it would have had the same effect on the surface of reality: A PlayStation Controller would have succesfully appeared.. (Stuff that have never been painted do not exist). I took a picture, turned on my computer again and send it to Roman. Here is one- I said- Lets use it for the invitation...