Video: "The Travels of Bad" - travel with a guitar in hand by Zander Blom
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Looking at the works of the South African author Zander Blom, one involuntarily recalls the installations of the Swede Michael Johansson … Moreover, I don't want to compare their work, but only to be surprised at how different people are. While one person for hours intoxicatedly puts household items into the most accurate works, the other, with no less enthusiasm, does everything possible to make his works serve as a visual illustration of the word "chaos".
Installations from the series "The Travels of Bad" are always a corner of the room "decorated" with drips of paint, in which guitars, drums, wires, pieces of furniture, piles of cut paper and a lot of other objects are randomly piled up in a heap. However, there is no doubt that the place of each object in the installation is clearly verified by the author, and creating such an appearance of chaos is sometimes even more difficult than putting in perfect order.
These installations can only be seen in photographs, as they were created as part of the project "The Travels of Bad", in addition to photographs, it includes a 48-page mini-novel and an album with 17 thrash metal audio recordings. According to the author, it is "a satire that critically evaluates the impact of exotic cultures and their artifacts on the avant-garde system of European visual art since the late 19th century."
In general, Zander Blom characterizes his work as an attempt to understand modernism from the point of view of a young man living in Johannesburg at the beginning of the 21st century - from positions that are very remote in time, space and ideology from the events under study.
Zander Blom was born in Pretoria, South Africa in 1982 and currently lives and works in Johannesburg. He has been engaged in creative work since 2002, and his areas of interest include drawing, painting, graphics, installation, photography (rather as a way of documenting installations).
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