Event: Oliver Payne (Herald St, London, March 2 – April 7, 2013)
A Los Angeles based artist, Oliver Payne (b. 1977) was born and raised in London. His first solo show at Herald St gallery exemplifies his interest in the "
"Marquees and control panel overlays (CPOs): relics of the ancient landscape of the arcade, a vanished social space. These titles represent not a catalogue of classics but a sampling of the abundant rank and file. Where once they exteriorized the world of the game, Payne’s abstracted CPOs collapse into frame a fraction of the game-in-the-world and a bit of the world itself. His marquees, inverted like the signs of out-of- business shops, emphasize as well the strange fate of replacement parts for obsolete commodities. These parts can still be sourced, destined for nostalgic fetishization in the minted-out basement arcades of collectors or next to the photo booth in a Brooklyn bar." (Eli Diner)
"Program notes for a chance collaboration between John Cage and Fumito Ueda: In/Out, that’s what I’d call it. And not just because you’re In a Landscape, or because those sublime digital vistas—vast, ashen and craggy—are, in turn, encased in an interior…itself within a video… or those identical records falling subtly in and out of synch on matching 1200s… and on and on like a Matryoshka doll… The logic of games—their inside—like Cage’s chance operations, works on the free play of possibility within the arbitrary limits of a system. These are the rules; the rest is total freedom. Chance, for Cage, meant the freedom from intentions, for Ueda the essence of gaming, instantiated in Shadow of the Colossus in a desolate world and lonely quest, trimmed of so many of the conventions of the adventure genre." (Eli Diner)LINK:
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti via Contemporary Art Daily
Images courtesy of Herald St