Organized within the framework of 'Images and imagination, The construction and reception of a visual object' a co-production between De Overslag and Onomatopee.
On Neidich's work:
Today's Economic Crisis is the result of attempting to use theoretical apparatti and techniques developed to administer the conditions of an extensive economic, political, social and psychological order to comprehend and fix an intensive distribution for which they were not adapted. The multiplicitous, interconnected networks of our now emerging global context in which the real abstraction is more real then the real, can only by corrected with the use of instruments conjugated according to its different logics.
To visualise a brainstorm through diagrams is a proven strategy to generate innovative thinking. It is able to catalyse the production of new knowledge systems, previously unavailable to thought. Like the well known French philosopher Gilles Deleuze states in his book, Francis Bacon, the logic of Sensation, “The diagram is indeed a chaos, a catastrophe but it is also a germ of order or rhythm. It is a violent chaos in relation to the figurative givens, but it is a germ of rhythm in relation to the new order of the painting. As Bacon says, it “unlocks areas of sensation.” Then what of the Mindmap. Does it unlock new forms and conditions for thought and the imagination. Is the mind map a kind of auto representation of the thought itself an intantiation of thoughts made into “thingness” . Thoughts interfacing with each other along distributed epistemic networks are for Neidich poetic couplings between brain, mind, and world.
Within the gallery space of ‘production label’ Onomatopee, Warren Neidich will give rise to the landscape of a brainstorm. He will produce a totally projected assemblage of a drawing history the end point which manifested itself as a stage set in his studio at the IASPIS residency program creating a contained dynamic zone in between the visual and analytic whatever that style of analysis might be, where he made the performance “Some cursory comments on the nature of my wall drawing”, 2008.
Onomatopee will publish a book covering the entire trajectory of his drawing project.
19 December, 20:00, opening at Onomatopee and De Overslag. Special free busses available between the two locations.
16 January, 20:00, bookpresentations at De Overslag and Onomatopee.