VCA ART 2020

Kurt Medenbach

Honours

Where do memes go to die?

Digital, temporal, sculptural, performative // a shitstorm—multidisciplinary // through techno-augmentation the artist explores the dissipation of physical space into digital architecture // contemporary kitsch combined with the aesthetics of teenage consumerism highlight the human within the spectacle

like any playground stunt: this is an aesthetics of validity // anti-validity // MUDDY-THINKING // in jokes—the North Sea: stupidity // OUT: a fascination with disassociation // an over reliance on play

within—the utopic draws a path to the dystopic // where decaying myths are digitised // AND ideas are conceptualised until meaningless: we have come to see that thoughts are cheap // morphing fragmentations // AND expressions with short attention spans—the artist tends to digress // understand—stubborn art is beautiful in its willingness to fail.

Website

www.kurtmedenbach.com

Social

Instagram

Enquiries

medenbach.art@gmail.com

Recipient

Carolyn and Hans Varney Art Award
Kurt Medenbach, Promethea, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Promethea, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Promethea, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Promethea (detail), c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Speedy-Tale, 3D animation, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Purifications, 3D animation, Empedecle's fragments, emoji translator, straw, twine, steel, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Epimetheus, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Epimetheus, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, leather, steel, horse manure, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Speedy-World, 3D animation, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Dinosaurs, 3D animation, faceswap AI, straw, twine, steel, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Chimera, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, steel, straw, found numberplate, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Chimera, c-type digital print, puffy stickers, steel, straw, found numberplate, 2020
Kurt Medenbach, Speedy-Goods, 3D animation, 2020

Honours

Chelsea Arnott
Skye Malu Baker
Thandiwe Bethune
April Chandler
Julien Comer-Kleine
Felix von Dallwitz
Edward Dean
Chelsea Farquhar
Jemi Gale
Isaac Kairouz
Thomas Solomon Kuiper
Brodie Kokkinos
Michael McCafferty
Sean McDowell
Lachlan McKee
Kurt Medenbach
Brayden van Meurs
Madeleine Minack
Lia Dewey Morgan
Hetty Munn
Samuel Nugent
Nina Rose Prendergast
Leo Bagus Purnomo
Liam Randles-Martin
Nina Sanadze
Seth Searle
Alice Watson

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