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The Fondation is currently closed. It will reopen on October 9th for the "Gustave Fayet, Collector - Designer. Icons of Modern Art" exhibition".
A stack of thirteen canvases is leaning against the wall, mimicking a method of storage in a studio. The works appear to form part of an anonymous production process. Apart from the first canvas at the front of the stack, only the edges of the works hidden beneath remain visible, like stripes or barcodes.
The thirteen panels present an impressive range of images (screenshots, studio views, newspaper clippings – the most recent being one covering Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the United States in 2022 – and colourful bitmap files) created using the artist’s usual technique. Wade Guyton uses a large-format printer to ‘paint’ on canvas: an identical image is printed once or several times onto the canvas, which has been folded in half beforehand.
The vertical framing, the ‘staggered’ composition and the deliberate banality of the subject seem to contradict the sophisticated treatment chosen, which lends this work a great visual and chromatic density.
It can be presented in various configurations: either as a single stack, or with one or more paintings mounted on the wall whilst the others remain stacked, or even with all thirteen paintings hung throughout the space.
Crédit artiste : © Wade Guyton Crédit photographique : Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
A leading figure of the new New York scene in the early 2000s, Wade Guyton continually eluded categorization by first turning away from painting, then by pulling away from abstraction.
His radical project was to use a large-format Epson inkjet printer as his brush and his signature and, in doing so, redefined the pictorial field of experimentation and the concept of author in Warhol’s wake.
