Leo Gabin

Studio view (sculptures), Ghent, 2011

art collective

text by JEFF RIAN

All photos courtesy of Peres Projects, Berlin

 

For about 10 years the artists’ collective Leo Gabin has mined user-generated media, which is so readily available on the Internet, and divined from that a succinct variety of Internet-generation paintings, sculptures, and video clips. The paintings incorporate silk-screen images with the swirly smears of what looks like print colors being wiped off glass. But they’re all highly controlled in a style that recalls Willem de Kooning’s gestures, Robert Rauschenberg’s reprocessing of images, and Richard Prince’s wry look at particular aspects of the world we now know and seek to come to terms with.

Got Bandz, 2012, lacquer, spray paint, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas

The sculptures are composed from shards of paintings, along with the acetate film used to make screen prints….