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Matias Faldbakken — “I am a spokesperson for totally anarchistic mayhem on a bed of traditional family values.” Matias Faldbakken, 2013
Matias Faldbakken

“I am a spokesperson for totally anarchistic mayhem on a bed of traditional family values.” Matias Faldbakken, 2013

A crumpled plastic bag serves as the unlikely canvas for a scrawled, handwritten phrase rendered in felt-tip pen and pencil, its disposable materiality at odds with the deliberate act of framing. Faldbakken's choice to preserve and encase this ephemeral object lends an air of institutional weight to what might otherwise read as a throwaway gesture or scrap of personal notation. The tension embedded in the work's title-as-text mirrors the contradiction of its form: a declaration of anarchic impulse contained within the authoritative borders of the artist's own frame.

Medium
felt-tip pen, pencil on plastic bag, in artist's frame

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Under the Influence

September 16, 2014

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Matias Faldbakken, “I am a spokesperson for totally anarchistic mayhem on a bed of traditional family values.” Matias Faldbakken, 2013

A crumpled plastic bag serves as the unlikely canvas for a scrawled, handwritten phrase rendered in felt-tip pen and pencil, its disposable materiality at odds with the deliberate act of framing. Faldbakken's choice to preserve and encase this ephemeral object lends an air of institutional weight to what might otherwise read as a throwaway gesture or scrap of personal notation. The tension embedded in the work's title-as-text mirrors the contradiction of its form: a declaration of anarchic impulse contained within the authoritative borders of the artist's own frame.

Medium
felt-tip pen, pencil on plastic bag, in artist's frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Anarchic Aesthetic, Mixed Media Drawing, Provocative Statement, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Framed Works, Norwegian Male Artist, Anarchist Aesthetic, Contemporary Art, Monochromatic, Text-Based Art, Found Materials

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