Konrad Wyrebek, UK. The artist paints mostly in oil and acrylic. He usually always starts with the images he finds online. The resulting work of art interrogates the medium on different levels. From a formalist perspective, Wyrebek references the Neoplasticism of Mondrian and the Cubism of Picasso by exploring the fourth dimension in art seen in a contemporary context as the post-internet realm and the abstract potential of electronic images. However, by introducing the synthetic use of machines in his process and leaving the viewer to question the hand of the artist, Wyrebek challenges the boundaries of painting by raising important questions about the artist’s originality and the role of technology in contemporary art.
Process: Each image is pixelated through a succession of digital compressions with deliberate settings causing corruption of data in transfer between different software and devices.
Transformation interests me – how people or things can change, but particularly how we can make them change from our viewpoint. As I spend time with the found image, new thoughts and possibilities are evoked and I experiment with potential additions, deformations and changes that will become part of a transformed image.
+ similar to artist Dan Hay, Wyrebek depicts manipulated/ corrupted images into large-scale man-labour paintings. Differing the Hay, his paintings don’t particularly depict the whole, but the mixtures of the digital presentation. He is abstracting the images by machine, compelling viewers to search for meaning in the artwork, not to merely look, but to see.
+ The use of vanish in his painting while seeing in detail creates a dynamic texture and lamentation compared to the matt paint in geometric distinction. the way he names his artworks is quite like codes/computer file names as well…
https://www.konradwyrebek.com/
https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/konrad-wyrebek
https://sophiacontemporary.com/artists/53-konrad-wyrebek/biography/