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Martin Oppel



http://martinoppel.com

Mass communications has transformed everything: persons, places, things, a good portion of our fantasies, and all of our representations, including art. The world has been pictured, copied, and investigated from every perspective and point of view, and in every media and style thus far conceived. We look outwardly and inwardly, all at once, accruing and discarding with increasing abandonment, playing out options to the hilt. Yet there are artists for whom discursive points-of-view, life seen in glimpses from here, there, and everywhere, are the carrier of subject matter, and the meaning of it all.

Martin Oppel appropriates, re-creates, and depicts the underused and overlooked in a quest for ontological fixity at a moment when culture is anything but stable.
Each object in Oppel’s oeuvre has its own internal logic, making for a visually heterogeneous output (...) is practice is reflexive, equally concerned with what ways art does or does not begin to answer these questions as with raising the questions themselves. “A space of pure potential” describes not only the brightly lit arena stage, but also the empty studio, the young artist’s career, and, at least now, the city of Miami, where Oppel lives and works and which has mutated ever more rapidly into an internationally recognized art center. One could argue that Oppel's swift evolution as an artist has mirrored the gold-rush transformation of his environment, the liminal spaces of which he heroically transfigured in earlier paintings.


from: www.galerieperrotin.com

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