THE BLACK FRIDAY PAINTINGS
24hr BLACK FRIDAY FLASH EXHIBITION - Total Melt Down displays 3 main works of late capitalism in a 24 hour flash exhibition in Factory Floor Gallery -
• 2x 47' Ultra High Quality Black Friday Oil Paintings.
• 5m2 BLUE PACKING PEANUTS
• 4x1:20 Scale Cargo Shipping Containers
Exhibit 1. The Black Friday paintings (2020)
Oil on Canvas 46x46 Inches
The Black Friday paintings address the annual display of class disparity fuelled by media, exposing a tradition of exploitation and how the system normalises the idea that material commodities should be suffered over.
- 46” Ultra High Quality Oil Paintings.
Featuring stunning displays of disparity and optimised realism.
The co-ordinated global intersection of demand and supply contained in a curated violent media spectacle.
- Stunning Contrast
Colour, contrast and status are highlighted and amplified, the audience are welcomed to join a sharp display of imbalance. Scenes can be repackaged as optimum entertainment, broadcast back to the viewer on the very devices that are being fought over. Multi-Media class betrayal in high definition.
-The Ultimate solution for Connected Viewing.
Stunning aspirational Imagery and idealistic language to stream the financially marginalised into a cinematic frenzy, participants are reframed as savages, hungry for high-quality media consumption, battling over devices that propagate their own value to the point of violence. The must have TV’s as seen on TV, an orchestrated hyper consumerist playback loop.
The socio economic total meltdown sale.
The Black Friday paintings aim to address the annual display of class disparity fuelled by media, exposing a tradition of exploitation and how the system normalises the idea that material commodities should be suffered over.
The bruegelesque compositions reinforce a struggle for control over social status whereby the media object is shown as the ultimate status symbol, The ultimate solution for connected viewing.
Mail order painting commission in collaboration with Yu Hung.
Exhibit 2. Ah, yes. enslaved paintings (2020)
4 x 1/20 scale shipping containers models
Geneva Freeport is a warehouse complex in Geneva, Switzerland, used for the storage of art and other valuables and collectibles. It is the
oldest and largest freeport facility, and the one with the most artworks, with 40% of its collection being art and an estimated art collection value
of US $100 billion.
Within the concrete confines of the freeport, exists the greatest art show never seen.
Some of the worlds most valued pieces of art are stored in cargo containers, sometimes for decades.
Although the tax-free zones by have been widey acknowledged as a money-laundering tool, Boris Johnson has unveiled plans for ten new freeports in the UK to boost post-Brexit investment.
Ministers said they hoped to announce the locations of the new free trade zones later this year, with the first set to open for business in 2021.
Exhibit 3. VoidFill (2020)
Eco-flo biodegradable loose fill, 5 m2
Total protection in a post-office world.
© Studio Koseda 2020
