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Base looks toward the foundation, to the degraded, stepped-over core of existence. The culmination of a decade’s development of material practice, Sam Lipp’s new series of paintings use the artist’s signature combination of oil on steel, including one work on a steel medical box. A third medium, frottage—Lipp’s distinctive process of mark-making through friction with sidewalk cement—emphasises these paintings’ unusual sturdiness while also testifying to ideas of bodily vulnerability and decay. A term used to describe the sexual rubbing of bodies against each other, frottage denotes the place where the harsh wear of urban existence and the circulation of the libidinal economy meet. In Lipp’s work, the marks left by the abrasion simultaneously resemble the remnants of an incompletely erased idea, the grotesque elegance of self-harm scars, and the ubiquitous wear visible on street signs and other civic infrastructure.
Arranged in a filmic sequence, the tripartite colourway system that…
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Base looks toward the foundation, to the degraded, stepped-over core of existence. The culmination of a decade’s development of material practice, Sam Lipp’s new series of paintings use the artist’s signature combination of oil on steel, including one work on a steel medical box. A third medium, frottage—Lipp’s distinctive process of mark-making through friction with sidewalk cement—emphasises these paintings’ unusual sturdiness while also testifying to ideas of bodily vulnerability and decay. A term used to describe the sexual rubbing of bodies against each other, frottage denotes the place where the harsh wear of urban existence and the circulation of the libidinal economy meet. In Lipp’s work, the marks left by the abrasion simultaneously resemble the remnants of an incompletely erased idea, the grotesque elegance of self-harm scars, and the ubiquitous wear visible on street signs and other civic infrastructure.
Arranged in a filmic sequence, the tripartite colourway system that…
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