Elon Musk Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, plywood, shopping cart, "Full Moon" mineral water bottles
124 x 205 x 149 cm (48.82 x 80.71 x 58.66 in)
Elon Musk Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, plywood, shopping cart, "Full Moon" mineral water bottles
124 x 205 x 149 cm (48.82 x 80.71 x 58.66 in)
Elon Musk Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, plywood, shopping cart, "Full Moon" mineral water bottles
124 x 205 x 149 cm (48.82 x 80.71 x 58.66 in)
Mike Bouchet
Kim K. Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint
144.5 x 194 x 212 cm (56.89 x 76.38 x 83.46 in)
Mike Bouchet
Kim K. Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint
144.5 x 194 x 212 cm (56.89 x 76.38 x 83.46 in)
Mike Bouchet
Elon Musk Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, plywood, shopping cart, "Full Moon"
mineral water bottles
124 x 205 x 149 cm (48.82 x 80.71 x 58.66 in)
Mike Bouchet
Elon Musk Jacuzzi, 2014
Sculpture - fiberglass, cardboard, latex paint, plywood, shopping cart, "Full Moon"
mineral water bottles
124 x 205 x 149 cm (48.82 x 80.71 x 58.66 in)
Mike Bouchet
Cloud Nymph (reading), 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
NymphCloud (Tacosaurus), 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
NymphHorse 3, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Single Mom Stack, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Tom Cloud 2, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
UpTown 2, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
WarHorse Orgy, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
World Legend 2, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Diana Pickle, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
History Lesson 1, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Hornblowers 2, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Teachers and Students, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Tom Croods, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Yellow Ranger 2, 2014
Painting - oil on canvas
210 x 150 cm (82.68 x 59.06 in)
Mike Bouchet
Peres Stack, 2014
Sculpture - Stainless steel, lacquered sheet metal, veneer covered particle board, 11
books, 2 laptop computers, 2 cell phones, paper, club mate bottle, water bottle, misc.
office supplies
210 x 110 x 160 cm (82.68 x 43.31 x 62.99 in)
Mike Bouchet
Peres Stack, 2014
Sculpture - Stainless steel, lacquered sheet metal, veneer covered particle board, 11
books, 2 laptop computers, 2 cell phones, paper, club mate bottle, water bottle, misc.
office supplies
210 x 110 x 160 cm (82.68 x 43.31 x 62.99 in)
Mike Bouchet
Peres Stack, 2014
Sculpture - Stainless steel, lacquered sheet metal, veneer covered particle board, 11
books, 2 laptop computers, 2 cell phones, paper, club mate bottle, water bottle, misc.
office supplies
210 x 110 x 160 cm (82.68 x 43.31 x 62.99 in)
Mike Bouchet
Peres Stack, 2014
Sculpture - Stainless steel, lacquered sheet metal, veneer covered particle board, 11
books, 2 laptop computers, 2 cell phones, paper, club mate bottle, water bottle, misc.
office supplies
210 x 110 x 160 cm (82.68 x 43.31 x 62.99 in)
Mike Bouchet – Power Lunch
September 17 – November 8, 2014
Opening: September 17, 2014 18 – 22h
Peres Projects is pleased to announce Power Lunch, our first solo exhibition with the America-born and Frankfurt-based artist Mike Bouchet. Mike Bouchet’s large-scale oil paintings demonstrate how our cultural climate is ruled by the bewitching mixed signal known as the Double Bind. In the nineteen-fifties, English anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined this phrase to describe how conflicting messages can render over-stimulated individuals vulnerable to coercion. For Bouchet, popular entertainment and global consumer brands are powerful perpetuators of such clashing, mind-controlling communications. His glossy photo-realist paintings isolate a particularly influential branch from our ubiquitous pop-culture cacophony — the movie poster — to illustrate the tensions, escape fantasies, conflicts, erotic stimulation and power of this popular form of mass-media imagery. The influence of the behavorial sciences in the development of these posters is evident, but their genesis lies in the history of painting. Bouchet’s orderly canvases are composed from images of actual movie-posters to form jarring juxtapositions. The source material, with its heavy psychological baggage, is transformed through painting back into a new image, keeping psychological weight, but with its original agenda obscured. Bouchet’s painting technique is also rife with rich conflicts. He outsources production to professional painting firms in the Far East, forcing a conceptual tie between unique canvases and global mass-marketed consumer “fast” culture. On the most visceral level, this is the “double bind: that viewers experience when encountering Bouchet’s works. Evoking the distance between drivers and the billboards they pass, his canvases appear from afar to be examples of photorealism. Yet the colours and forms dissolve into near abstraction and a mishmash of brushwork techniques when viewers approach more closely. Paradoxically and jarringly, the nearer viewers get while examining Bouchet’s paintings, the more confusing and compelling they become, a metaphor which can be applied just as effectively to the original source material, as well as to the cultural realities which they embody.
Peres Projects’ opening hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am – 6pm. For further information and sales inquiries, please contact Javier Peres (javier@peresprojects.com), Nick Koenigsknecht (nick@peresprojects.com) or by telephone +49 30 275 950770.
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