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An artistic-anarchic DIY vision — as opposed to the production of art works in tightly managed studios, or the complete outsourcing of production processes to industrial methods — is at the center of New Technologies, a duo exhibition of new works by Matthias Groebel and Jean Katambayi Mukendi. For both artists, ‘Open Source’ is the basis of their practice: the production of imaging devices and their painterly output has been Groebel’s work for over 30 years, while the utopian character of Katambayi Mukendi’s work is fed by a desire to produce poetic, speculative models or frameworks.
In 2016, Katambayi Mukendi showed his ‘Afrolamps’ for the first time — these drawings of interwoven lines or interlocking surfaces are made on standard paper formats, mostly in black and white and occasionally in color. As hybrids of totemic masks, light bulbs, and maps, they take us back to the 19th century, when, alongside the invention of electric light as a high point of modernist progress, the Congo…
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An artistic-anarchic DIY vision — as opposed to the production of art works in tightly managed studios, or the complete outsourcing of production processes to industrial methods — is at the center of New Technologies, a duo exhibition of new works by Matthias Groebel and Jean Katambayi Mukendi. For both artists, ‘Open Source’ is the basis of their practice: the production of imaging devices and their painterly output has been Groebel’s work for over 30 years, while the utopian character of Katambayi Mukendi’s work is fed by a desire to produce poetic, speculative models or frameworks.
In 2016, Katambayi Mukendi showed his ‘Afrolamps’ for the first time — these drawings of interwoven lines or interlocking surfaces are made on standard paper formats, mostly in black and white and occasionally in color. As hybrids of totemic masks, light bulbs, and maps, they take us back to the 19th century, when, alongside the invention of electric light as a high point of modernist progress, the Congo…
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