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    New Works

    Jason Matthew Lee
    23 September - 15 November 2017
    Jason Matthew Lee
    Galleria Mazzoli // Via Nazario Sauro n.62, Modena



    Jason Matthew Lee was born in Chicago (U.S.) in 1989, lives and works in New York.
    Trained as a photographer and keen on digital graphics, he became well known, still very young, for his installations with discarded payphones, an obsolete means of communication turned in a ready made by the creative intervention of the artist. Afterwords he directed his research to the wide internet world, getting inspired by the images used as a test for the first computer graphics (ZERO/Lenna, Marbriers 4, Geneva, 2014), as well as by the modern figure of the hacker (Trust (Vita vel regula) Fluxia, Milan, 2014).
    His education and interest in photography and informatics, led him to create an innovative print process able to print many times on the same canvas digital scans from comics, mass media images and pages of art history books, as well as traditional painters used to spread many layers of colour. His works have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions all over the word as Tragic Venus, CELESTE-Data Center Marilyn, Champs-Sur-Marne, 2017; Bruteforcephfreak, Johann Bergrren Gallery, Malmö, 2015; GLOBALHELL, Crèvecoeur, Paris, 2015; Too Many Memories, Bedstuy Love Affair, Brooklyn, 2014.

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    PRESS RELEASE
    The works of Jason Matthew Lee combine painting with computer graphics. To interpret them carefully requires paying attention to their many layers. It is always possible to recognize a background level that consists of a gestural sign, made by the artist with spray paint. A digitally constructed image is printed over the paint, generally blending two elements: photographic images and graphic layout. The former are “appropriated” from a reservoir that ranges from the visual impressions of early data processing to cyberpunk imagery, processed by software for digital manipulation. The latter consists of texts, grids, filters, logos, etc. Approaching a work by Lee, the viewer has to engage in a dual exercise of perception of the image in its unity and in its parts. In other words, to think about the act of seeing as a command of fusion or breakdown of the constituent levels.

    For his first show in Mazzoli Gallery Modena the artist has made two groups of works for the exhibition at Galleria Mazzoli. The ones in a larger format represent stratifications of lines: spray-painted doodles, photographs of tangles of electrical wires, orthogonal grids and circumference patterns. The linear nature of all these elements is an echo of their production processes (digital printing, computer graphics, etc.). They replicate and incorporate the diagrammatic nature of computer thinking, the property through which the computer embodies all the principles of linear thought, just as it ignores any command not formulated in keeping with the rules of linearity. If, however, we notice that many of these lines are circular, closed or knotted to themselves, then these works can be interpreted as suggestions of reflexive commands, codes that write themselves, intelligent machines. The smaller works blend images and codes of computer viruses with images of biological viruses. They are nocturnal, spectral works that point to the immanence of technology in human civilization.

    Catalog Available, with text by Michele D'Aurizio


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    exhibition's catalogue
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    Essay by Michele D'Aurizio
    48 pages, color images
    500 numbered copies

    Published by Galleria Mazzoli. Modena, 2017.



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    + Jason Matthew Lee, New Works, Mazzoli Gallery, Modena 2017