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

Commonwealth and Council

Los Angeles

Honolulu

Basel

Art Basel

San Francisco

Untitled

Kristina Kite

Glasgow

Koppe Astner

London

Phillida Reid

Night Gallery

Düsseldorf

Galerie Max Mayer

François Ghebaly

Château Shatto

Shanghai

Yuz Museum

New York City

Swiss Institute

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Lace)

The Shed

Cayetano Ferrer

Mmry Scrn

Window

L.A. County Folly Ruin Fig. 1 (1:12 scale model)

Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 5

Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 4

Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 3

Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 2

Manifold Prosthetic for Museum Fragment 1

Remnant Recomposition 3 (Section D)