Andy Boot

Bringing “the ephemeral world of the internet into physical spaces”, Andy Boot creates paintings and sculptures to reveal the complexity of the line between lived and online experiences. Drawing on art history, modernist concerns of materiality and form through the contemporary lens, Boot incorporates scratch-and-sniff stickers into his paintings and wire mesh replicating the background of GeoCities – a now-defunct web-hosting service –into his sculptures. Chance and coding, or decoding, intertwine in the artist’s work: in his work i.e. e who remained was M (2012) Boot threw noodles at the canvas to produce patterns, a process inspired by Spaghetti Spam which is a code used to camouflage spam emails. Whether suggesting an alternative realm of viewing, inspiring digital nostalgia or subjecting himself to the uncertainty of chance, Boot demonstrates the emotive complexity of our relationship with the Internet and its disembodied physicality. Written by Goldsmiths CCA ...

In 2016 Croy Nielsen moved from Berlin to Vienna, where it is located in the beletage apartment of a historical building in the 1st district. The gallery was founded by Oliver Croy (AT) and Henrikke Nielsen (DK). Artists such as Nina Beier, Marie Lund, and Benoît Maire, have been part of the program since its inception, and were later joined by Olga Balema, Georgia Gardner Gray, and Sandra Mujinga. Vienna-based artists include Ernst Yohji Jaeger, Joanna Woś, and Soshiro Matsubara. The gallery has strong ties to the Nordic region, representing several artists from the Scandinavian contries and regularly participating in fairs and projects in the area. ...