"REMAKE, REMODEL, RETOUCH"
RY DAVID BRADLEY
TRISTIAN KOENIG
19 GLASSHOUSE ROAD, COLLINGWOOD, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 3066
Telephone : +61 498 694715 email
August 4th> September 10th, 2016
It is with great pleasure that Tristian Koenig announces the opening of Remake, Remodel, Retouch - a solo exhibition of new works by Melbourne-born, London-based Ry David Bradley. Compromised of singular paintings produced through Bradley’s signature use of the dye-sublimation process, the new works foreground the use of image metadata gleaned from found digital files Bradley sources from the internet, which act as the starting point for his paintings.
Ry David Bradley’s suite of new paintings that comprise Remake, Remodel, Retouch start life as ‘amateur photography’ images sourced from online photographic repositories such as Tumblr. Through the process of using software and altering each image beyond recognition, and outputting these files to a variety of fabricators, the resulting paintings are extended beyond the initial documentary nature of the photographic image, into dreamlike and liminal spaces.
A noticeable feature within each painting is a small date and time stamp buried within each composition. Derived from the metadata contained within each source image, the stamp provides information, which divorced of context, proves enigmatic. Is it the time the source photograph was taken, or when the painting was last edited? Viewed in contrast to On Kawara’s Today paintings, which carefully chronicle the day they were produced, Bradley’s ADD PAINTINGS suggest a more concerted measurement of time - down to the second, as well as today's obsession with metrics and analytics
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Ry David Bradley (b. 1979, Melbourne) completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne in 2013. In 2009 he started the blog PE (Painted Etc.), which was one of the first blogs to document the emergent trend of post-internet painting. Recent exhibitions include Unvalley Valley, Evelyn Yard, London; Not to be Digitised, Tristian Koenig, Sydney; Not a Photo, The Hole, New York; Windoes, The Composing Rooms, Berlin; Where Do You Want To Go Today, Brand New Gallery, Milan; Access All Areas, Bill Brady, Kansas City; Border Protection, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne and Picture Movement (with Thomas Jeppe), Utopian Slumps, Melbourne. Bradley’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Aldala Collection, United States; Proclaim Collection, Melbourne and the Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, as well as private collections in North America, Europe and Australasia.
Ry David Bradley’s suite of new paintings that comprise Remake, Remodel, Retouch start life as ‘amateur photography’ images sourced from online photographic repositories such as Tumblr. Through the process of using software and altering each image beyond recognition, and outputting these files to a variety of fabricators, the resulting paintings are extended beyond the initial documentary nature of the photographic image, into dreamlike and liminal spaces.
A noticeable feature within each painting is a small date and time stamp buried within each composition. Derived from the metadata contained within each source image, the stamp provides information, which divorced of context, proves enigmatic. Is it the time the source photograph was taken, or when the painting was last edited? Viewed in contrast to On Kawara’s Today paintings, which carefully chronicle the day they were produced, Bradley’s ADD PAINTINGS suggest a more concerted measurement of time - down to the second, as well as today's obsession with metrics and analytics
For a preview of Remake, Remodel, Retouch click here
To contact the gallery regarding availability of works click
Ry David Bradley (b. 1979, Melbourne) completed a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne in 2013. In 2009 he started the blog PE (Painted Etc.), which was one of the first blogs to document the emergent trend of post-internet painting. Recent exhibitions include Unvalley Valley, Evelyn Yard, London; Not to be Digitised, Tristian Koenig, Sydney; Not a Photo, The Hole, New York; Windoes, The Composing Rooms, Berlin; Where Do You Want To Go Today, Brand New Gallery, Milan; Access All Areas, Bill Brady, Kansas City; Border Protection, Tristian Koenig, Melbourne and Picture Movement (with Thomas Jeppe), Utopian Slumps, Melbourne. Bradley’s work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Aldala Collection, United States; Proclaim Collection, Melbourne and the Athenaeum Club, Melbourne, as well as private collections in North America, Europe and Australasia.
