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"Ghost (Berlin)" by Andy Mister
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Item Description
A drawing by Andy Mister:
Ghost (Berlin), 2013
Acrylic and ink on paper, 18 x 12 in. (Paper size: 20x14 in.)
"Using pencils and paper, I create large-scale, hyper-realistic drawings of found and appropriated images. Inspired by Dan Graham’s video “Rock My Religion,” in which Graham draws parallels between rock music and the American Shaker religious practice, I have been especially concerned with pictures of crowds and mobs. All social gatherings, whether spiritual or secular, are inherently political. The main question I am asking in my current series is: Can a mass-produced cultural experience adequately address that culture’s spiritual needs, and if so, how? The graphite and paper I use reflect and comment on the inherently superficial and ultimately futile gesture of, for instance, celebrity idolatry. On the other hand, the sheer size and detail of the work, combined with the intensity, discipline, and mechanical labor required to create it infuse the work with a feeling of the sublime missing from the events the images depict."
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