Travess Smalley, Rendered Aura

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TRAVESS SMALLEY RENDERED AURA

18 November 2011 - 6 January 2012

Opening Reception:

Friday 18 November, 2011 - from 7pm to 9pm

who lives and works in New York City.

websites and digital images through an evolving process that often includese non-digital steps, such as

painting, drawing, scanning, collage and printmaking.

also collaborates with projects such as Poster Company, Loshadka, Computers Club, and Drawing Depot.

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Neon Bouquet,


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by Ceci Moss

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in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned. Rapidly, we

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the above, and it is responsible for producing the aesthetic, cultural sensibility and genre known as

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delia, which has resurfaced in varying forms over the past few decades, over and over again.

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path of the “black mirror” as an alternative space to this frenetic activity:

enchanted technology of wonder. European painters used black mirrors to focus on composition,

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provide calm and rumination not unlike the black mirror.


Primordial Trance Puddle

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Ever Glowing Meshand oranges move along the surface, like a software-produced liquid light show.

shine, this luster is deeply entangled with the aesthetics of a commercially friendly digital psyche-

of how our screens operate in a programmed environment: psychedelia not as enlightenment-

Acid Collada series of prints are polished and eye-catching.

paper, adds more touches with real paint and a brush, then scans them back in again, for more

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Acid Collada series meld into one another, becoming indistinguishable.

Rendered Aura relate the peculiar condition of our technologically

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in cult, the semblance of its autonomy disappeared forever.” Eternally lost, perhaps we could see a

desire to regain the mysticism of the cult object in the transcendence offered by psychedelia and

commercial psychedelia into something other, promises this seemingly divine encounter, however

unattainable it may be.

research addresses contemporary internet-based art practice, digital technology and perception, the materiality of media, post-

modernism and digital art preservation.


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TRAVESS SMALLEY RENDERED AURA

18 Novembre, 2011 - 6 Gennaio, 2012

Opening Reception:

Venerdi 18 Novembre, 2011 - dalle ore 19.00 alle ore 21.00

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anche con progetti come Poster Company, Loshadka, Computers Club, e Drawing Depot.

Mostre Recenti:

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Acid Collada 1,


Acid Collada 2,

Acid Collada 3,


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Acid Collada

su carta, aggiunge ulteriori tocchi di vernice con un pennello reale, quindi le reimporta, per ulte-

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Acid Colladadiventando indistinguibili.

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lo splendore seducente della psichedelia commerciale in qualcosa di altro, promette questo incon-

tro apparentemente divino, per quanto irraggiungibile possa essere.

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