JASON WARE / Spark Gap
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JASON WARE / SPARK GAP
19 June – 7 July 2012
Jason Ware, Spark Gap (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
“Max Ernst would often disguise the joins between his collage elements through techniques of reproduction such as photography and printing. In this show I experiment with both. With these collages I present three picture spaces: the illusionistic, the physical and the space perceived by the mind on encountering the other two. No matter how much we think we know, we can’t know a thing until we see it. I’m interested in what things can be.” – Jason Ware
Jason Ware, 6112 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 7112 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 9212 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 17112 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 18212 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 21112 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 22212 (2012)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 181211 (2011)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 261211 (2011)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Jason Ware, 271211 (2011)
Photographic collage, 300mm x 420mm
$630
Working within Andre Breton’s adage “Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table”, Ware’s work brings together the unexpected and the inexplicable. Trading on the legacy of National Geographic whose glossy pages presented distant shores and unknown places; science, wonderment, and the marvel of human imagination are brought together with that distinctive Kodachrome sharpness and subdued palette.
For Ware collage operates as both a stand-alone creative act and fuel for his sculptural practice. He notes that he is interested in the image in three ways; the image space and the illusionistic aspects of drawing together disparate images into a whole that is apparently believable; the physical aspects of the picture surface and its surroundings, the way texture and the physical act of cutting draws attention to and highlights the ‘gap’ into which the perceived space, that which in conjured up in the mind of the viewer, can be enticed into being.
Presenting possibilities and questions, Ware’s work literally and metaphorically operates in the void; wasps hover where a face should be and a couch is divided by a black void in which an unknown form blooms; whilst the surface in others is disrupted by objects extending past the image frame. In this way Wares work illustrates the ability of objects to resist human agency whilst also highlighting the extent of humanities ability to control their environment. In images such as the computer filled room we come face to face with the limits of our understanding about our future and our ability to predict its appearance. For surely none of us now live with computers that take up entire rooms, I carry mine in my pocket.
– Jo Mair
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