About Artist Tom Burr Art Work And His Paintings At The Saatchi Gallery
Made from metal wood and vynil Tom Burrs Bitch Immediately After Vynil balances the seductive qualities of his materials with formalist objectivity. Incorporating references to minimalism design and social space Burr infuses the manufactured aesthetic and sleek lines of 70s sculpture with an ultramodern sensibility incorporating narrative associations. Through his sparse presentation and refined media Burrs arrangement compels with almost fetishistic elegance; its domestic size and naughty details create an evocative subtext to the austerity of his composition.
BIOGRAPHY
1963Born in New Haven
Lives and works in New York
A more satisfying relationship between text and objects is “staged” right now with the works of Tom Burr. Very well written texts address the social architectural and psychological space of the fluorescent mirrored 42nd street milieu that one finds all over the “peep showed” world. The short instructive texts “blue movies” “blue laws” “peep scumatrium” … open up a rich conceptual parenthesis which the artist filled with a series of uncompleted light interior short hand architecture in varying sizes.
This explains why artists who pursue these strategies run the easy risk of ending up arrogant cynical arbitrary and formalist in their object choice and presentation. To be informed by an analytical and critical approach often doesn’t change this trap. Previous shows by AFA and others have exemplified these failures.In most cases somebody else produces the work for them using standard industrial materials. The function of these objects is often descriptive illustrating of a set of ideas expressed more accurately by textual means. The ideological value of the present or absent texts is mainly to justify the uninteresting objects in their expository function which are as quickly to be interchangeable as produced.
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