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“‘That romantic disease, originality, all around we see originality of incompetent idiots, they could draw nothing, paint nothing, just so the mess they make is original . . . Even two hundred years ago who wanted to be original, to be original was to admit that you could not do a thing the right way, so you could only do it your own way.’”
In 1955 the novel The Recognitions by William Gaddis appeared. At its centre stands a painter, Wyatt Gwyon, who produces technically perfect paintings in the style of the Flemish Old Masters. His works circulate successfully on the art market: collectors buy them, dealers sell them, experts admire them. And yet they are considered forgeries. Not because the painting itself is bad, but because the name underneath is wrong. Gaddis describes here a fundamental shift.
It is exactly in this field of tension that the work of Ryan Cullen operates. The difference between original and copy does not lie in the image itself, but in the system that recognises…
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“‘That romantic disease, originality, all around we see originality of incompetent idiots, they could draw nothing, paint nothing, just so the mess they make is original . . . Even two hundred years ago who wanted to be original, to be original was to admit that you could not do a thing the right way, so you could only do it your own way.’”
In 1955 the novel The Recognitions by William Gaddis appeared. At its centre stands a painter, Wyatt Gwyon, who produces technically perfect paintings in the style of the Flemish Old Masters. His works circulate successfully on the art market: collectors buy them, dealers sell them, experts admire them. And yet they are considered forgeries. Not because the painting itself is bad, but because the name underneath is wrong. Gaddis describes here a fundamental shift.
It is exactly in this field of tension that the work of Ryan Cullen operates. The difference between original and copy does not lie in the image itself, but in the system that recognises…
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