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now & then: art as logo
Playing free and loose with synchronicity, Jef Bourgeau has pulled together a sort of prequel to his Art as Logo series from the 1990s. Thowing art into reverse, he has recently created a group of preliminary diagrams and sketches for paintings now 20 years old.
“Jef Bourgeau believes that proper ‘branding’ is elemental to the promotion, sale and distribution of art. In his 1991-94 series, Art as Logo, he reduced a group of famous artists to one simple icon or logo each. In these simple b&w paintings he is capable of making us see Donald Judd in a simple chest of drawers. While he evokes Picasso in American Guernica with the silhouettes of four men in suits and fedoras beating each other up with nightsticks.”
- Jan van der Marck
The exhibition at the Art Room,
opening January 29, 2011.
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JEF BOURGEAU
Jef Bourgeau mines, archeologist-like, histories of various art objects, movements, moments, in unusual and determined ways. He looks at art, the market, and ways that one often, perhaps always, overwhelms the other.
I look at the whole of his work as a love letter to the potential of art made by an artist perched right between his heart and his head.
- Lynn Crawford
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