MYSTERIOUS AND DARK WORLD OF SEB PATANE
Seb Patane’s art often takes the guise of stripped-down stage sets, sound pieces and sparse, salon-style installations of framed works. Typically comprising culled and repurposed imagery from Russian avant-garde theatre or industrial–electronic music, the artist’s two-dimensional work orchestrates a passive–aggressive relationship with its irrefutably radical source material through drawn defacements or decorous homage. Whether referring to the notoriety of the Italian far left (16 January 1968, from 2007, supplements an archival press shot of the arrest of the activist Luigi Bobbio), esoteric occult practices or Constructivist Utopias, Patane troubles the style of transgression as his work seemingly reactivates the revolutionary challenge ‘Che fare?’ (What is to be done?).
Maureen Paley Gallerey, London
26 novembre 2009 - 17 janvize 2010
Extracted from www.friezeartfair.com
