FRESH FACES IN ART: EIGHT LA ARTISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
TOM DUNN Using the tropes of film, both comedy and tragedy, Dunn creates visual 'scandals' that cause problematic responses to the grotesque. Any boundaries between the playing out of fictional or real lives are lost within a carnival of excess, participation, role-playing and desire. The sources from tabloid journalism, reality TV, morning talk shows, celebrity gossip and office small-talk all set a theatrical stage for Dunn to enact his own form of Brechtian lunacy and Lynchian ‘Fear & Loathing.’ While they critique celebrity culture, Dunn’s scandals go further than that to implicate all of us in a subconscious drive towards Bahktin's theories on degredation. Exploring these themes through sculpture, drawing & painting and video, Dunn presents the hybridity and metamorphosis inherent in the viewer's subjective imposition upon the subject to form moments that flicker from base desire to Schadenfreude. Elements of Boschian absurdity and psycho channel surfing bring a manic quality of dystopian humor to the mirror Dunn places in front of us. (MP). http://www.tomdunn.com.au
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