Dean Sameshima "Pictures:Tres"

THE BLACK PILLAR
presents
The gayest pillar ever

"Pictures:Tres" (2009)
by Dean Sameshima

Wednesday 1st July 2009. 9:00 pm.
at Polyester
Travesía de San Mateo, 10
Madrid


"Pictures:Tres" unveils Sameshima´s artistic personality.
He checks his own archives, several material compiled through the years that he usually uses in his work, to offer it in another aesthetic place under another lens, half a resume, half step ahead. This images, texts and advertisements, mostly from the 70s even they refers also to our days, are his true resources: a group of icons, ideas and fantasies around desire. He doesn´t reject art referencies, beauty, violence or crime. Some of them show young naked men, with a corrupted and imperfect beauty to the eyes of usual moral or beauty codes. The collection offers some sort of emotional map of dreams and wishes, with an evident socio-political position close to extensions of thethe queer movement. Sameshima makes what Barthes wouldn't doubt to call "textual terrorism", and the result is a metageneric collage able to include Genet and the Physique Pictorial, passing through Mapplethorpe, Jeffrey Dahmer (Milwaukee´s serial killer), Fassbinder or Andrew Cunanan.

Dean Sameshima (Torrance, California 1971) studied Fine Arts at the California Institute of Arts and got a degree by thethe Art Center College of Design of Pasadena. He belongs to the new generation that is revolving the artistical scene of the american West Coast. Since 1995 his work has been shown at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Kunstverein Hamburg, the Tate Modern in London, Firenze´s Palazzina Reale and Los Angeles MOCA where he is part of the colecction. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. He is been represented by Peres Projects Gallery (Los Angeles, Berlin) and Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo). This is his first show in Spain.




The Black Pillar.
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