Lossless by David Hanes at PYLON-Lab, Dresden
Lossless
David Hanes
PYLON-Lab, Dresden
April 21 – June 10, 2018
PYLON-Lab proudly presents the solo exhibition Lossless by Berlin-based artist David Hanes as its inaugural show, which opened on April 21st, 2018.
In today’s world of globally shared visual information online, file compression during transmitting processes leaves marks on the digital material. The exponentially increasing demand for smaller and faster transmission of data is fueled by the need for a supply of steadily accelerating output and content distribution. Users and prosumers, such as artists, face these needs and yield products that often question aesthetic values, as a progressive decay of visual information becomes intrinsic property of digital material.
David Hanes’ research and work examines an architecture of the inevitable loss in the digital medium by focusing on the increasing online presentation and consumption of art. Using digital art documentation as a medium itself, Hanes’ alterations shift the perceptual habits of viewing contemporary art. Through a rigorous digital imaging process, Hanes generates imagery at the intersection between subject and document, constituting a unique and distinct aesthetic.
Hanes’ research and conceptual approach expands in his sculptural works: Making use of readymade materials – as a means of responding to and engaging with visual conditions online -, Hanes reinterprets mechanisms like blogging and their ambivalent, curatorial qualities. By recontextualizing symbolically charged as well as common objects, Hanes’ sculptural works (just as his pictorial works (/imagery)), translate digitalized information falling back into physical materiality.
David Hanes (Canadian/American, born 1987, Toronto) has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions, both on- and offline. For his first show in Dresden, PYLON-Lab presents works which demonstrate Hanes’ ongoing dissemination of the ever-evolving phenomenon of visual art online. The exhibition includes printed artworks from Hanes’s Aware and Materia series as well as sculptures and the multi media installation psycho.gif (2012-2016).
David Hanes’ research and work examines an architecture of the inevitable loss in the digital medium by focusing on the increasing online presentation and consumption of art. Using digital art documentation as a medium itself, Hanes’ alterations shift the perceptual habits of viewing contemporary art. Through a rigorous digital imaging process, Hanes generates imagery at the intersection between subject and document, constituting a unique and distinct aesthetic.
Hanes’ research and conceptual approach expands in his sculptural works: Making use of readymade materials – as a means of responding to and engaging with visual conditions online – Hanes reinterprets mechanisms like blogging and their ambivalent, curatorial qualities. By re-contextualising symbolically charged as well as common objects, Hanes’ sculptural works (just as his pictorial works (/imagery)), translate digitalized information falling back into physical materiality.