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Grade Pending in collaboration with ESSO Project
IERIMONTI GALLERY24 West 57th Street, Suite 501-503 New York, NY 10019 Tel. +1 212 581 16 19 Fax +1 212 586 05 76 e-mail: |
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June 9 - September 15, 2015
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Ierimonti Gallery in collaboration with ESSO project is pleased to announce Jay Batlle’s new exhibition “GRADE PENDING”, a suite of giant restaurant stationery paintings produced over 2013-2014. Batlle will show these works with his new Sanitary Grade paintings. Sanitary grades are commonly seen when entering a restaurant and are usually cheap letter sized laser print outs.” Batlle has taken this formal structure: enlarged and “hand painted” sanitary grades to accompany the paintings on giant restaurant stationery. Batlle creates a dichotomy allowing the viewer to rate the system and judge the works- Grade Pending uses state generated Sanitary Letter templates to evaluate the works presented here and question our conception of how we define taste, by “liking” something.
“I heard that the reason socialism never took off in America, is that poor people here see themselves simply as inconvenienced millionaires, just like an artist who hasn’t made it yet. I’m interested in the idea that artists are starving until they succeed; I love this cliché that you can’t feed yourself, (Van Gogh ate his paints). Instead of saying artists are poor, or they’re broke, or they owe money, we say they’re starving. So what does that literally translate into? Having a meal! If you’ve “made it,” then you can go to the place in Provence, called La Colombe d’Or, where Picasso used to go and trade a work for eats. You have Kippenberger at the Paris Bar in Berlin, where he had all his paintings hanging and he could eat for free for life. In other words; the artist has made it. He can eat wherever he wants. Success is eating well, and I guess I like that.”
“I heard that the reason socialism never took off in America, is that poor people here see themselves simply as inconvenienced millionaires, just like an artist who hasn’t made it yet. I’m interested in the idea that artists are starving until they succeed; I love this cliché that you can’t feed yourself, (Van Gogh ate his paints). Instead of saying artists are poor, or they’re broke, or they owe money, we say they’re starving. So what does that literally translate into? Having a meal! If you’ve “made it,” then you can go to the place in Provence, called La Colombe d’Or, where Picasso used to go and trade a work for eats. You have Kippenberger at the Paris Bar in Berlin, where he had all his paintings hanging and he could eat for free for life. In other words; the artist has made it. He can eat wherever he wants. Success is eating well, and I guess I like that.”
Opening reception:
Tuesday June 9, 6-8 pm
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