This contemporary artwork features a series of grid-like compositions in contrasting black, white, and yellow hues. The prominent visual elements include bold lines, geometric shapes, and repetitive patterns reminiscent of musical notation or financial charts. The subject matter appears abstract, with the grids potentially symbolizing concepts of structure, systems, or data. The artistic style evokes a minimalist aesthetic, with the artist utilizing distinctive screen-printing or stenciling techniques to create the clean, graphic patterns. The contextual background suggests the piece may comment on themes of technology, automation, or the quantification of modern life. ...
Through painting, photography, sculpture and video, Hugh Scott-Douglas investigates socio-economic structures, technology and value. Using a wide array of techniques, including inkjet printing, laser cutting, cyanotypes, and satellite mapping software, the artist explores the tension between digital and analogue modes of creation and the contemporary potential of photography as a medium. Scott-Douglas’ work, while predominantly visually abstract, concerns questions of consumerism and migration, trade routes and cultures of transaction. In his series ‘Trade Winds’ (2016), he utilised satellite software to track shipping routes across the globe; producing abstract paintings that are in fact visually presented empirical data. Working with outmoded, traditional and cutting-edge techniques of image-making, Scott-Douglas reinvents the ontology of painting and photography amidst the globalised, consumerist condition.
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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. ...
