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On the surface of it Marieta Chirulescu is a materialist. Although her work incorporates the inkjet printing of scanned images, she never uses it to open windows onto other planes, other places. Nor does she have – or has she ever had – much truck with the digital evangelism of many of her contemporaries. She emerged in the late 2000s when this technique was seen as a state-of-the-art panacea, rendering painting newly relevant for the information age. Now that its promise has been superseded by that of other, more up-to-date technologies, the extent to which the photographic component of her work is assimilated by painting and fabric collage is less likely to be obscured by the glamour of the printing technique in its own right. We can see more clearly that what is what in the mix has always been difficult to distinguish. Images are arranged as bricolage; the bricolage of printed fabric creates images. Photography is used to produce monochrome painting; monochrome painting to occlude…
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On the surface of it Marieta Chirulescu is a materialist. Although her work incorporates the inkjet printing of scanned images, she never uses it to open windows onto other planes, other places. Nor does she have – or has she ever had – much truck with the digital evangelism of many of her contemporaries. She emerged in the late 2000s when this technique was seen as a state-of-the-art panacea, rendering painting newly relevant for the information age. Now that its promise has been superseded by that of other, more up-to-date technologies, the extent to which the photographic component of her work is assimilated by painting and fabric collage is less likely to be obscured by the glamour of the printing technique in its own right. We can see more clearly that what is what in the mix has always been difficult to distinguish. Images are arranged as bricolage; the bricolage of printed fabric creates images. Photography is used to produce monochrome painting; monochrome painting to occlude…
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