—It’s easy to dismiss an art piece’s significance if it is lacking in shock value. But aside from content, opening your eyes to an overlooked way of viewing things can provide your mind with the same electric excitement.
With sculptures carrying names such as “Faceoff” and “Royal Rumble,” you wouldn’t expect Mario David Fischer’s pictures to be wiry in appearance. In fact, one can argue they are not sculptures at all, but that Fischer is merely manipulating how our eyes view the subjects. From one point of view, the separate and assembled drawings on acrylic glass can seem disjointed and nonsensical. While from another, the vantage point provides the perfect perspective to catch the emotion in conflict.
Regardless if you’d argue for or against these works as being sculptures, one must appreciate Fischer’s eye for depth perception as displayed by the glass, and applauded for challenging the viewer into questioning which fundamental category (drawing or sculpture) this piece falls into. And that’s part of the shock value: making subtle comments that disagree with your peers. A conflict of ideas and views.
We’re all familiar with pattern association, like how Missoni is famous for a certain pattern; well, Matt W Moore is pretty well known for his bold, in your face geometric sculptures.
Atlanta-based artist HENSE has taken the term “paint the town red” quite literally; but hey we ain’t mad at that. His projects are not just small-scale graffiti tags, they’re done on a large scale that seem to take a life of their own during the creation process.
