PROUDLY PRESENTS
MERLIN CARPENTER
“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”
“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE”
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Ed Lehan asked me for a painting
that was hanging in my flat. I gave him one. It was made in 1990 & meant to
be a generic abstract. Now I said OK if I give you a painting then you must
make me 20 copies, 20 identical, readymade, abstract paintings. OK this
happened and here they are, they are about not being an assistant and not
having one, ethical pure exploitation, and like totally also about how in the
intervening 20 years, a generic abstract definitely means something different
to back then, it incorporates "net" knowledge, curation and post-
nonirony like the change from acid house rave music to the garage music of
todayʼs London scene.
- Merlin 27.1.2011
Oakwood
Merlin Carpenter, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
http://www.overduinandkite.com/archive/merlin_carpenter2011.htm