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Ryan Gander: Embrace Your Mistakes... Your Mistakes Are the Markers of Your Time, 2019
Ryan Gander: Embrace Your Mistakes... Your Mistakes Are the Markers of Your Time, 2019
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Calligraphy ink on 130 gsm cartridge paper
59,4 x 42 cm 59,4 x 42 cm (unframed)
69,9 x 52,5 x 3,6 cm (framed)
69,9 x 52,5 x 3,6 cm (framed)
(RG 192)
Ryan Gander’s Embrace Your Mistakes... Your Mistakes Are the Markers of Your Time is a blue calligraphy ink drawing on cartridge paper. In this series of 365 unique drawings, one for each day of the year, the artist tries in vain to draw a candle that goes out. Each sketch is then crumpled and discarded into a waste paper bin, only to be recovered and smoothed out—while preserving each fold and crease—and framed in a neutral grey frame, a tone that is perceptually about halfway between black and white on a lightness scale.
Gander’s series references Vincent van Gogh’s painting Gauguin’s Chair, 1888 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam): a portrait in absentia of the French painter—and Van Gogh’s close friend—Paul Gauguin, through the means of a burning candle and a couple of books left on an armchair’s seat.
The material, formal and stylistic variety of Ryan Gander’s practice is unified both by his conceptual vision and by recurring themes concerning creativity, the nature of art and the life of the artist. Gander’s oeuvre evokes fictional spaces, referring to absent objects, artworks or persons, both real and imaginary. The artist often focuses his attention on the playfulness and imagination of children, who are less burdened by facts and appearances than adults
Ryan Gander’s Embrace Your Mistakes... Your Mistakes Are the Markers of Your Time is a blue calligraphy ink drawing on cartridge paper. In this series of 365 unique drawings, one for each day of the year, the artist tries in vain to draw a candle that goes out. Each sketch is then crumpled and discarded into a waste paper bin, only to be recovered and smoothed out—while preserving each fold and crease—and framed in a neutral grey frame, a tone that is perceptually about halfway between black and white on a lightness scale.
Gander’s series references Vincent van Gogh’s painting Gauguin’s Chair, 1888 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam): a portrait in absentia of the French painter—and Van Gogh’s close friend—Paul Gauguin, through the means of a burning candle and a couple of books left on an armchair’s seat.
The material, formal and stylistic variety of Ryan Gander’s practice is unified both by his conceptual vision and by recurring themes concerning creativity, the nature of art and the life of the artist. Gander’s oeuvre evokes fictional spaces, referring to absent objects, artworks or persons, both real and imaginary. The artist often focuses his attention on the playfulness and imagination of children, who are less burdened by facts and appearances than adults
