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This is an image from Jay Stuckey's show in Berlin. He's done a ton of these mixed-media works. Airplanes. Mummies. Airplanes vs. mummies. Mummy-demagogues inciting the mummy-hoi-polloi towards greater violence towards airplanes. The copy on the Abel Neue Kunst website (the gallery in Berlin where the above-mentioned show was hosted, I guess, but I have very little German) suggests something about this work being interesting because it points to the"the consequences of our own violent imagination and of the dramatic outcomes of military conflicts." But I don't get that at all. I just get mummies and airplanes. Some of his works remind me a little of Alighiero e Boetti's Aeroplani paintings, mostly because of their shared visual content, but also because of a common sense of play and a boyish fascination with the possibilities of permutation of various forms of flying machines.
e Boetti:
Stuckey:
But that's about it. His stuff reminds me in a very superficial manner of another artist. All I can really say of my fascination with Stuckey's work is that it reminds me of the battlefield landscapes I drew in my notebooks in elementary school, and the sense of accomplishment at learning a new detail, or drawing convention that would render my doodles "cooler." I'm fine with drawing that nostalgic value from these works, but I'm just a little curious as to if others out there have favorite artists that the sort of "just like, man. I dunno." |
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