Remnant Recomposition 3 (Section D)

Cayetano Ferrer

BornNationalityBased In
1981AmericanLos Angeles
Biography

Cayetano Ferrer creates visual landscapes occupied by the detritus of contemporary and ancient culture. The artist is interested in billboards, signage, litter and neon; the visual pollution that occupies our everyday cognisance. He excavates their meaning and attention-grabbing function, stripping back their layers and examining that which they signify and obscure. Ferrer selects splintered fragments, whether that be shreds of textiles, offcuts of found wooden carvings, or sections of Art Deco patterns, amalgamating them into sprawling, loud visualisations. In ‘Remnant Recomposition’ (2014), the artist filled the gallery floor with a carpet adorned with reconfigured imagery taken from various casinos, such as the Bellagio, overlayed with Egyptian and Greek motifs. Standing atop the carpet on literal pedestals, Ferrer displays disjointed Greco-Roman sculptural fragments commonly found in a museum, a hierarchy-disrupting discrepancy between supposed low and high art. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

Selected Artworks
Remnant Recomposition 3 (Section D)
Cayetano Ferrer
Remnant Recomposition 3 (Section D), 2018
299.72 x 193.04cm
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 1
Cayetano Ferrer
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 1, 2020
125.1 x 31.12 x 20.32cm
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 2
Cayetano Ferrer
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 2, 2020
153.67 x 33.66 x 22.86cm
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 3
Cayetano Ferrer
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 3, 2020
114.3 x 33.02 x 33.02cm
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 4
Cayetano Ferrer
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 4, 2020
129.54 x 35.56 x 33.02cm
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 5
Cayetano Ferrer
Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 5, 2020
116.84 x 33.02 x 33.02cm
L.A. County Folly Ruin Fig. 1 (1:12 scale model)
Cayetano Ferrer
L.A. County Folly Ruin Fig. 1 (1:12 scale model), 2020
45.72 x 36.83 x 7.62cm
Window
Cayetano Ferrer
Window, 2019
68.58 x 47.5 x 1.27cm
Window
Cayetano Ferrer
Window, 2019
59.69 x 76.2 x 1.27cm
Window
Cayetano Ferrer
Window, 2019
60.96 x 49.53 x 1.27cm
Mmry Scrn
Cayetano Ferrer
Mmry Scrn, 2019
234.95 x 208.28 x 2.54cm
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