Johnny Bunting
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Wissel 766 26 mei 2016Johnny Bunting (1980) is an English artist currently residing in Rotterdam. He works with a variety of media, including painting, photography, video and installations. A common thread running through many of his artworks is the assembling of fragments of images and found objects. These collections are often presented on shelfs as wall installations or as sculptural tableaus, representing an entanglement of life and art. They also contain aspects of systematisation and cataloguing and not least, they possess an artist's look at the comprehensive image-potential all around us, whether it is the contrasting beauty and grittiness of the lived life or the characteristic imagery of various art forms.
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The assembling of scattered visual elements is not unlike our daily experience of incoherent incidents; some of them we want to salvage in an effort to put together a cohesive story of our lives. In his sculptural works, Bunting visualises the subjective nature of memory and the way we all have our fascinations and things we ascribe meaning to. Everyone has their relics, heirlooms and souvenirs - incidental debris of lived lives – which all become parts of each person's unique narrative.
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Curator: Lise Sinnbeck
Fotografie: Igor Blok