Paul Kaptein"Rain" hand carved wood sculpture, contemporary, figurative, surrealism2016
2016
About the Item
- Creator:Paul Kaptein (Australian)
- Creation Year:2016
- Dimensions:Height: 17 in (43.18 cm)Width: 8 in (20.32 cm)Depth: 8 in (20.32 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU37136485772
Paul Kaptein
Paul Kaptein is one of the only few artists that has been in Hatched (the national survey of recent graduates held annually at PICA) twice (1999 and 2000). He was in it both as a TAFE graduate and as a Curtin graduate. His work revolves around a remixed present. Replaying the moment – graduating twice in two years and reliving Hatched - seems pretty apt. In Paul’s case, perhaps this déjà vu becomes the artwork - a shameless and blatant example of disrupting the natural progression of time. Of course, this is a simplistic notion - the progression of time that is - in the face of the en-clouding nature of the fabric of this universe. But the constant tension that creates ebbs and flows, springs and strings and the enfolding of material and energetic collapsing that we call time - is just that - a simplistic notion - and the overlapping nature of events, the bizarre consequence of an artist concerned with the materiality of time being in the same place for the same occasion on two different days - suggests that the universe has more than growth and collapse, birth and rebirth to drive it - it also has a wicked sense of humor. This is, of course, all laid out in the hitchhiker’s companion to galaxy travel. His confounding interest in the immaterial as an expression of the overt reliance (and ignorance of the composition) of materialism as a somewhat naive description of reality has always intersected his fond enjoyment of metaphors, riddles and other transient quips that show a sharp mind dissecting the ineptitude of language. Paul desires to work in the woods. Wood’s growth is dependent on the gaps in the universe – pushing through the soil, climbing into space. Wood in itself seems like a not-too-subtle reminder of how the material is made up of much negative space. That Paul has decided to use laminated wood only enhances this feeling - the panels slip and slide, creating their holes, which exasperates the gaps in the fabric of the universe. As Paul puts it - the laminated wood starts the enactment of key principles: expansion and contraction, interconnection and incompleteness. Once again, the material processes of Paul’s push toward immaterialism - finding life through the dissection of (material) language. In this sense, Paul is asking language, the description of materialism, as a process, in this case, to become the energetic impact of the work, the spark that ignites the fusion that creates transformation (which in itself is form). His figures are alive only under this weight of knowing: of knowing that their hold on temporality is misconstrued as some sort of knowing. Their seeming emergence from the history of art, subcultures and sport - of referencing artists, icons and mythologies - of anticipated potential futures - is the counterpoint to their being vehicles toward discussing emptiness, broken data streams, hand skilling, interruptions of information networks and time/always time. Paul’s work remixes the immaterial into the material, language into disassociation, the artists into the VJ - creation only happens when the natural flow is interrupted - when light is pulled in, when matter is enfolded, when stars die and babies cry. The spaces allow us time to catch breath. Paul’s work, though remixing the present, gives us (at least) two turns to capture the moment.
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