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Benjamin Rubloff's paintings in this book are all based on fragments of found graffiti. For many years, Benjamin Rubloff photographed tags and graffiti as he walked around the city, turning the marks into oil paintings.
Benjamin Rubloff's paintings in this book are all based on fragments of found graffiti. For many years, the artist photographed tags as he walked around the city, mainly because he was interested in their painterly qualities: the speed of a gesture, the way they sit on a wall, their random drips and splashes. As an experiment, he began copying these marks into oil paintings, altering the scale and framing, but otherwise aiming for an exact transcription of the original tag. His intention was to create abstract paintings that would not bear the qualities of his own hand. Instead, they would be records of the traces of others.
When he retraced his steps — sometimes years later — to find the original tags, Rubloff often found them gone. Sometimes the sites themselves had been radically altered. He began to write about these places in conjunction with the paintings, exploring the intersection of their histories with his own. As a result, each painting in the book is accompanied by a text and a photograph of the site, intended to provide an anchor back to the city itself.
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About the Author
Benjamin Rubloff is an American artist now based in Berlin. His work explores issues of place. He began his career as a landscape painter, working conceptually within the genre to investigate how issues of politics and ideology are inscribed onto the landscape. This interest led him to Cornell University’s interdisciplinary MFA program where he studied art alongside histories of landscape and urbanism. He is a recent recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for Painting. He holds an M.A. in education from Harvard University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University in American Studies.
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Hardback. Condition: New. Benjamin Rubloff's paintings in this book are all based on fragments of found graffiti. For many years, the artist photographed tags as he walked around the city, mainly because he was interested in their painterly qualities: the speed of a gesture, the way they sit on a wall, their random drips and splashes. As an experiment, he began copying these marks into oil paintings, altering the scale and framing, but otherwise aiming for an exact transcription of the original tag. His intention was to create abstract paintings that would not bear the qualities of his own hand. Instead, they would be records of the traces of others.When he retraced his steps - sometimes years later - to find the original tags, Rubloff often found them gone. Sometimes the sites themselves had been radically altered. He began to write about these places in conjunction with the paintings, exploring the intersection of their histories with his own. As a result, each painting in the book is accompanied by a text and a photograph of the site, intended to provide an anchor back to the city itself. Seller Inventory # LU-9783987411441
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sonst. Bücher. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Die im vorliegenden Buch versammelten Gemälde von Benjamin Rubloff basieren alle auf Fragmenten von gefundenen Graffiti. Viele Jahre lang fotografierte der Künstler auf seinen Spaziergängen durch die Stadt die zahlreichen Tags, die ihm begegneten - vor allem weil er sich für ihre malerischen Qualitäten interessierte: die Geschwindigkeit einer Geste, die Art, wie ein bestimmter Tag auf der Wand platziert ist, die zufälligen Läufer und Spritzer. In experimenteller Herangehensweise begann er, die vorgefundenen Zeichen in Ölgemälde zu übersetzen, wobei er den Maßstab und den Ausschnitt veränderte, ansonsten jedoch eine exakte Kopie des ursprünglichen Tags anfertigte. Seine Absicht war es, abstrakte Gemälde ohne eigene Handschrift zu schaffen. Stattdessen sollten sie die Spuren anderer festhalten.Als Rubloff - teils Jahre später - an die Fundorte zurückkehrte, waren die Tags oft verschwunden. Manchmal waren auch die Orte selbst radikal verändert worden. So begann er, über die spezifischen Plätze und deren Verbindung zu seinen Gemälden zu schreiben und die Geschichte der Orte mit seiner eigenen zu verknüpfen. Im Buch wird entsprechend jedes Gemälde von einem Text und einem Foto des Fundortes begleitet, um so einen vielschichten Bezug zum Ort selbst und der Stadt herzustellen. Seller Inventory # 9783987411441
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