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Of Repetition and Recognition is an exhibition conceived of as a visual and conceptual experiment that combines the pictorial work of Brian Veis and the photographic work of Chiara Bastoni. The title is derived from a passage of The Disappearance of Rituals by philosopher Byung Chul-Han and refers to the evident seriality presented throughout the works and to the conceptual framework behind the photographs. Repetition, Chul-Han argues, provides a way to intensify experience and discover new aspects within the already known. He argues that the constant focus on novelty leads to overlooking the richness of the present, while repetition reveals its hidden depths.
The choice to focus on serial subjects in Veis’ paintings is far from being a style exercise, but rather, similarly to what Chul-Han brings forth, an attempt to carve into an aspect of reality, to return to a familiar internal landscape, ideal and blurry enough to linger at the edge...More
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Of Repetition and Recognition is an exhibition conceived of as a visual and conceptual experiment that combines the pictorial work of Brian Veis and the photographic work of Chiara Bastoni. The title is derived from a passage of The Disappearance of Rituals by philosopher Byung Chul-Han and refers to the evident seriality presented throughout the works and to the conceptual framework behind the photographs. Repetition, Chul-Han argues, provides a way to intensify experience and discover new aspects within the already known. He argues that the constant focus on novelty leads to overlooking the richness of the present, while repetition reveals its hidden depths.
The choice to focus on serial subjects in Veis’ paintings is far from being a style exercise, but rather, similarly to what Chul-Han brings forth, an attempt to carve into an aspect of reality, to return to a familiar internal landscape, ideal and blurry enough to linger at the edge...More
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