GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON

7 Jun-13 Jul 2014

Overview

“He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.” Maureen Paley is pleased to present the second solo exhibition by Gardar Eide Einarsson at the gallery. Gardar Eide Einarsson’s work incorporates acts of appropriation and the re-contextualization of imagery and information. He adopts and endows elements of cultural ephemera with a political charge, attempting to transform various materials into signifiers of dissent. His sources range from book cover graphics, mail-order catalogues, police instruction manuals, everyday objects and institutional architecture. The new exhibition will feature a sculptural installation made from oil drums and sand bags as well as a series of new paintings in acrylic on canvas where each finished painting has been silkscreened over with an image of a tarpaulin.