Tom Sachs

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac announced that the 7 th solo exhibition of Tomslake will be held at the Male Gallery under the title "American Hand Painting". The choice of this title is based on a specific aspect of the sax creative universe; he strives to use American landscape as an image and draw attention to the way we work. Traces of traces and handicrafts are voluntarily left behind and are an integral part of the work.

This exhibition mainly exhibits mural paintings and emphasizes two different techniques in Tom Sachs' practice: pyrography and inlay. By using fire as the only drawing tool, pyrographics allows creation of works without additional material, but mosaicing is a complex combination of pre-rendered mosaic elements.

Consumerism, corporate image, cultural imperialism, technological progress, identity and loss, the relationship between survival and destruction is Tom Saks' work center.

In this exhibition, Saks handmade paintings draw a variety of themes such as Goodwill Logo, McDonald's Chinese Logo, famous Scottish tape packaging, American flag, and modern icons are all American experience I record success and failure. And ambiguity and inconsistency inherent in that society and culture.

"...... This new work by ... Tom Sachs is full of mature guarantee and elegance with sadness, loveliness and personal things, I am shocked by its beauty Oh, our Degeneration, our contamination, but still stubbornly flirting hope, playing the role of a romantic artist, only Americans are still wearing a friendly smile.The children of goodwill have a change room behind Because I am seeking.

Especially interesting to me is that all his works are handmade, but this work is to remove the word "quality" and say "handmade". Quietly, with individuality, slowly, over time, I feel equal love and regret. These works belong to him. This is him. "

A few years ago, Tom Sachs produced black and white screen printing. This is an overview of the big pistol titled "Kill all artists". Again, the saxophone made a small red sticker with a white cross and the letters "Nuke the Swiss" written. Let's stick to trams, trucks in Zurich, lamps in Basel, doorways, car bumpers, trash cans and elevators. (Perhaps Sachs thinks that Oscar Wilde does not like Switzerland: "There is nothing but theologians and waiters")

A handwritten letter to Tom Sax's New York Studio window spelled out the word "This is not a pipe bomb". Behind them, a pair of assistants is working on analog electronic equipment. Margaret's jokes summarizes the dangerous flash that is common to most of Sax's work; this is that artist who started with the production of a self-made gun that is fully functional as an artistic purpose. But it is also a little annoying as it feels like a stray spark that the whole place may send it to the flame. For over 20 years saxophone occupied the low ceiling space behind the fuzzy storefront at the boundary between Soho and Chinatown. The aisle flowed between the workstations that the assistant saw and welded and the shelves were packed with materials selected by saxophone (spool, cardboard, electric tape, white lightweight box). All desktops or coin boxes have nearly mandatory orders.

Tom Sachs is another type of Bricolor. A gun, air conditioner, his statue of capricious fashion products (Chanel guillotine, Prada toilet) and a statue of "glue and paste findings and scraps" are extremely rough with very pop art. Their political blows are also their achievements. Artists are enthusiastic social observers and criticize capitalist guns. It looks like a product including destructive fashion, our human desires, hope, joy, weakness, but his favorite is just to remake it. Then connect the desires of those people with strings. He is an interesting package. (In 2005 Sachs visited Philadelphia and made a speech at PAFA, which is the entire report on Libby 's speech.