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| // city spots |
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| The City Spots series was ‘born’ by Adam Sher while living in New York, inspired by the everyday life of this metropolitan. In this series, Sher presents the outcome of wondering around a big city, and visual conclusions of observation in an urban setting. Sher gives into this wandering and the surprises that it brings along the way, and by doing so answers the adventurous impulse known to us from the backpackers' trips in the wild... | ||||||
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| // toy story |
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| Sher's toy paintings deal with the complex relationship between an industrial product, the serial unity of a production line doll, and an artistic action, unique in its manner and representation. In a reality in which everyone is busy with their daily needs, toys express an alternative world. They're a window to the past, a mixture between reality and imagination. Adam Sher uses dolls with brand value, taken from popular culture. They are a symbol of a capitalistic consumer society, manifesting a powerful marketing system... | ||||||
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| // happy dead end |
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| Adam Sher's embalmed images are realistically copied from miniature Disney plastic figurines found in a dump and bought by the pound. The markings of time are apparent in them. They lack gloss, glamour or joy and appear to be scaly, bleeding, facing destruction. Sher grants new strength to these images. He removes them from their natural habitat and isolates them; taking them out of proportion to a full size enlargement and having them confront the viewer at eye level... | ||||||
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| // good times |
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Adam Sher paints a child playing with a hair dryer. The work shows a child on the brink of adulthood, while at the same time emphasizing the contrast between children and adults who would turn back time and become young again.
all images copyright 2006 adam sher ©