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Laura Owens and Kyle Thurman Discuss the Work of Artist Michel Majerus moderated by Stephanie Seidel
On the occasion of “Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics” at ICA Miami, artists Laura Owens and Kyle Thurman discuss the impact and ongoing influence of the work of Michel Majerus. Through the lenses of their own work, Owens and Thurman will both reflect on Michel Majerus and the legacy of his work today.
As contemporaries, Owens met Majerus in 1996 in Berlin and exhibited with him in the group exhibition “Wunderbar” at the Kunstverein in Hamburg that year. The artists shared an interest in appropriated images and the radically expanded field of painting in the context of digital images and processing tools. Kyle Thurman first encountered Majerus’s work as a student in 2008 and was specifically intrigued by the late artist’s visual quotations of the Pixar movie Toy Story, along with similar “copy and paste” gestures prevalent in Majerus’s paintings. Thurman has since been fascinated by Majerus’s consistent questioning of pop iconography, accelerated consumerism, and technological advancements through the medium of painting.
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Laura Owens and Kyle Thurman Discuss the Work of Artist Michel Majerus moderated by Stephanie Seidel
On the occasion of “Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics” at ICA Miami, artists Laura Owens and Kyle Thurman discuss the impact and ongoing influence of the work of Michel Majerus. Through the lenses of their own work, Owens and Thurman will both reflect on Michel Majerus and the legacy of his work today.
As contemporaries, Owens met Majerus in 1996 in Berlin and exhibited with him in the group exhibition “Wunderbar” at the Kunstverein in Hamburg that year. The artists shared an interest in appropriated images and the radically expanded field of painting in the context of digital images and processing tools. Kyle Thurman first encountered Majerus’s work as a student in 2008 and was specifically intrigued by the late artist’s visual quotations of the Pixar movie Toy Story, along with similar “copy and paste” gestures prevalent in Majerus’s paintings. Thurman has since been fascinated by Majerus’s consistent questioning of pop iconography, accelerated consumerism, and technological advancements through the medium of painting.
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