WISDOM TOOTH (2010)

His work is based on the use of different creative strategies related to appropriation, post- production and serial works. Some time ago he began his artistic research through the search and compilation of images through the mass media and my own records, which he systematically order and classify by groups. Later, all these records are used as working material in his work.

This process is based on recycling already informed images, and turning them into a new context which changes or contrasts with the initial meaning of the source. He manipulate the images by confronting them with other elements, tending to make an ironic use of the mass media imaginary. As Nicolas Bourraud points out in his work “Postproduction”, this type of process tries to “take hold of all the codes of culture, of all the formalizations of daily life, of all the works of world heritage, and make them work.” The result is a juxtaposition of elements represented through a defragmentation of the image.

He believe that the notions of low culture or high culture that Umberto Eco spoke to us about in his work “Apocalyptic and Integrated” today became a reality which constantly interacts in the media. This kind of heterogeneity of elements converge with each other achieving unique examples in our society. A comic or graphic novel can cover human complexity in its entirety, just like a text by C. Levi Strauss about the existence of common patterns between different human races. It is interesting to me to bring together disparate elements that initially do not have a direct relationship, but creating a common thread can come to configure a formal and theoretical discourse, taking us to a new stage of knowledge. This “doing” of bringing together a great heterogeneity of elements activates a line of work, appropria- tion. Appropriationism is a work procedure that adapts very well to the imaginary of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). The amount of imaginary that is generated today, especially through the internet and social networks, it’s overwhelming. Much of the information we find is trivial, superfluous or does not generate immediate interest in us. However, all this is within a context in which we can extract theories about anthropology and at the same work based on that imaginary. It is precisely here where appropriationism is shown as a key tool to create work by turning it into new work scenarios.

INFO:

Marcos Covelo

2010

Wisdom Tooth

190 x 146 cm

Acrylic, marker and airbrush on canvas

Price upon request