Adam Fenton
1992, The Painting Department Malerskolen & The School of Sculpture Charlottenborg & Billedhuggerskolen Charlottenborg http://adamfenton.co.uk
The Ultimate Aesthetic Dance Floor of the Future 2.0, installation with found and handmade objects, performance. 2019
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Adam Fenton, The Ultimate Aesthetic Dance Floor of the Future 2.0, 2019. Photo: David Stjernholm.
In the Ultimate Aesthetic of the Future, we see objects and images that exist superficially. Their aesthetic is based on a polished and slick facade, designed only to be flashy and attractive to the eye. Their purpose goes no further than this surface. They do not transport the viewer to a place where one can gain concrete meaning. Individual elements are familiar and recognisable, but their combined expression is confusing and defamiliarising.
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Adam Fenton, The Ultimate Aesthetic Dance Floor of the Future 2.0, 2019. Photo: David Stjernholm.
Inhabitants of this dance floor are engineered to be stylish and sleek. They move and dance around the space in a way that we feel we understand. But their motions and actions never land on a certain mode of expression. The dance moves are in constant flux. The soundtrack is recognisable – a global pop song remixed with over the top climaxes, ebbs and flows of electronic synth.
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Adam Fenton, The Ultimate Aesthetic Dance Floor of the Future 2.0, 2019. Photo: David Stjernholm.
In this installation we see fragments of an Ionic column, cast in plaster. A television set stands in the corner screening a seemingly never ending loop of a performer, dancing in a strange disco setting, with Greek and Roman plaster casts as a backdrop. A familiar image of a water drop hangs on the wall. This image could perhaps be a mass produced print bought cheaply online but in fact is a hyperrealistic oil on canvas painting produced by the artist.
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Adam Fenton, Untitled, 2017. Oil on canvas, 100 x 70cm.
A plastic palm tree also decorates this quasi-waiting room, next to an inflatable banana and disco ball. All elements combined propose a new form of dance floor from an idealised other world.
For this installation, Adam Fenton has collaborated with dancer and choreographer, Rebecka Berchtold. Together they have choreographed a dance routine which is perfromed at specific times throughout the exhibition and together designed the ultimate aesthetic dance floor of the future.
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