SEBASTIAN HASLAUER: ÉLÉGIES
661 N. Spaulding Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036
Saturday, July 22 at 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Aug 26, 2017
As the title hints, Haslauer offers a lament to the 21st Century, contemplating the visual saturation of the digital world and the content of modern mass media. He is inspired by the melancholy in the work of Ovid, Goethe and Schiller—‘Élégies’ presents a similar sentimentality, but this becomes satirised through the artist’s distortion of contemporary found imagery and playful, non-figurative forms. By removing visual material from its original context, Haslauer teases us with ambiguous social and political narratives, undermining the desire to follow the status quo.
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