Baruch Gottlieb
more of the Pattern Series

Connects from the art space to the street - defaces the status quo with something whole yet infinite.
Articulates the power structures between the intellegencia and the intellectualised, the advertisers and the advertised…
...using electronics to extrude exquisite juice from the private experience of ultraordinary.

For a world on the edge of porn, where the obscenity of excessive personal wealth is the only sedative that works anymore.


I try to articulate with irony the grotesque state of things I see before me. Electronic media permits me a visceral sense of the global sweeps of sweet disease and despair, could be clouds mapped out by the weatherman. And, furthering that analogy, of what then would consist the high pressure systems colliding us into momentary voids?



Tranya 2001
illuminated offset print paper
2 pcs x 0,8m x 1,6m

RESONANCE


Contemporary urban life is obscene.
Look at how it all depends on the brute labour of tribes living under much more stringent moral codes.
Our spirit freed from a life of toil flits from fix to quick fix for basest solace.
Electronics echo our rattling nerves into thunderous robust groove.


kongo 2001
illuminated computer printout on paper
45pcs.x400cm 1,2m

on mouseover
Kongo (intervention)
offset print posters glued on existing advertising.

Man 2001
vinyl building wrap 2 pcs. x approx. 5mx5m

We get into the mechanical, sexual groove of our modern life, lubed up on greed.
Porn becomes everyone's fun, boosting the global demand for consumer electronics.
How long can you keep those dirty wife-swapping pics apart from your family snaps?

Plates 2001 vinyl banner 5m x 8m

Ona-mental 2001 digital print to canvas 3m x 3m