Untitled (17)
Untitled (17) brings includes all the typical elements of Michael Riedel’s aesthetic: the black circles on a white background, the barely visible text arranged both horizontally and vertically, with one word, in this case “Slideshow,” enlarged. This work belongs to the Poster Paintings series, generated from the HTML code of websites commenting on his work. He randomly selects a portion of the code and formats it by enlarging one of the words. These words are chosen in reference to the production gestures of his works (printing, clicking, scrolling). Added to this are painted black circles that evoke Apple’s spinning wheel that appears in the event of a system overload. This series pushes reproducibility to the limit by creating a self-sustaining system in which the works, by generating online comments, produce the material necessary to create new paintings.
Text written by Romane Grouille as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibition
Michel Rein, Paris (France)
from 16 Oct to 20 Nov 2010
Michael Riedel
Born in 1972 in Rüsselsheim, Allemagne
Michael Riedel crée à la fois des tableaux, des livres d’artistes, des magazines, des sites web, des vidéos et des installations. Il se réapproprie des textes disponibles sur Internet qu’il convertit en formes et couleurs selon une esthétique typographique reconnaissable. Chacune de ses œuvres est donc la reproduction d’un contenu existant. Il puise sa matière dans différentes sources : transcriptions de prises de son restituant des conversations, codes HTML, Lorem Ipsum, modes d’emploi, etc. Depuis 2010, ses principales productions sont les séries Poster Paintings et PowerPoint Paintings.
