This contemporary artwork features a striking geometric composition with bold contrasting colors and an abstract, architectural structure. The piece is dominated by black wooden slats arranged in an angled, triangular pattern, creating a sense of depth and visual dynamism. The prominent red panel at the center serves as a vibrant, eye-catching focal point, adding a dramatic pop of color and evoking a sense of energy or intensity. The artist's skillful use of minimalist forms, strong lines, and contrasting hues results in a powerful, visually arresting work that challenges the viewer's perception of space and invites contemplation on the relationship between structure, color, and form. ...
The collective DIS is exemplary in defining what Hannah Black in Artforum defines as the “relentless anxiety about the conditions and possibilities of art and life, express(ing) the despairing atomization, and the compromised longing for solidarity, of a post-bourgeois creative class hovering on the brink of its own obsolescence”.
Formed in 2010, after the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis and global recession, DIS as an entity has over the decade typified its aesthetic, cultural, political and economic impact. Composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro, DIS’ interventions blur the distinctions between art, curation, theory, advertising, fashion, retail and technology, manifesting across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects, often all at once. Their work exists often simultaneously online and in situ, as well as more traditional mediums like photography, sculpture, video and installation. Their current multi year project dis.art is a subscriber-based online video channel popularising in “edutainment”, helping us understand the complicated social machinery of our techno-capitalist world. The channel presents new commissions with other artists as well as DIS’ own content. ...
Contemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.
