Tom MeachamParis London Hong Kong is pleased to invite you to Imaginary Landscape No. 9, New York artist Tom Meacham’s first solo project with the gallery.
“The world, the real is not an object, it is a process.” – John Cage
At a certain point I found myself at an intellectual crossroads. The “aura” of the art object, as defined by Walter Benjamin, long after its death, was and is still providing a superficial haven for artists. Simultaneously the notion of rejecting the art object for a pure conceptualism seemed unsatisfying.
As it was the centennial of John Cage’s birth, there was a deluge of Cage’s concerts and events, which I took in. I thought about Cage. I thought about Brecht and “alienation effect.” I thought about Deleuze and the construct of an assemblage, desire in the aggregate, which led me to think about Girard and mimetic desire; the appropriation of the desires of the model, to destroy, to become the model of desire.
The posters began as a negation, a democratization, and a tongue in cheek gesture. The images are mimetic, stolen, imposters, specifically unoriginal. They are printed, flat, exact, no hand, clones. And the poster is the medium of the advertisement for an event, the advertisement for the sale of the art objects.
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