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Artist's Statement Ford, Chris Gilmour's cardboard rendition of a hot rod is re-fabrication, in that it exacts the high-powered, high-octane, high-macho, vanity toy, and juxtaposition, in that Gilmour constructs it in the most mundane, most proletariat, almost most proliferate material -- cardboard. He chooses his objects carefully. Not a vehicle from Talladega Nights, or a Grand Prix jewel, but still a reflection of desire and uniformity, as if reintroducing these objects through his cardboard clarity will re-render them in the viewers' eyes -- be it a coffee press, a Vespa, or a hanging baby grand piano. Duchamp took the urinal and the bottle rack out of the hardware store and called them ñReady Mades.î Chris Gilmour reapplies the idea with his own cardboard formulaic process. Creating his own appropriations and asking us to re-examine our own attitudes towards objects we find both appealing and utilitarian, he joins a long line of artists who create a dialogue through re-differentiating, re-diluting, and re-designing. Devon Dikeou |