Matias Faldbakken

STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo
Private Collection, New York

Birmingham, IKON Gallery; National Museum of Oslo, Shocked into Abstraction, November 2009 - January 2010

This work is in excellent condition overall. There are noticeable creases in the tape, which is inherent to the artist's method of working. There is a noticeable area of discoloration in the lower left quadrant of the MDF board which is inherent to the medium. Unframed.
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“At first…(my tape works)…were based on the way in which broken windows are taped together by store and office managers: I would photograph and then remake the kind of senseless abstractions that are created this way. But I soon found that the link to vandalism became too obvious, so I chose to drift into my own kind of abstraction, just arranging strips of tape on the wall really quickly and spontaneously. The works are simply what you see: pieces of tape on the wall. They are rewarding, somehow, on a visual level, but at the same time they are completely throwaway gestures and hard to take seriously as artworks.” Matias Faldbakken