Art Guide: Christopher Kulendran Thomas at the CCA
Exhibition: When Platitudes Become Form
Artist: Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Venue: CCA (Center for Contemporary Art), 5 Kalisher st., Tel Aviv
Dates: Until June 29th, 2013
Exhibition Views:
All pictures courtesy of the CCA, Tel Aviv
Press Release
The CCA, with the support of the British Council, is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in Israel by Christopher Kulendran Thomas.
Taking as materials the whole system by which art is distributed, existing artworks are purchased from the margins of international art power and reconfigured for worldwide markets to fund a part-clandestine evisceration of contemporary art’s globalising mission. Through this ongoing insurgent enterprise, cultural exchange is explicitly perverted by the underlying colonial trading patterns that it usually masks. Art here is ecologically contingent within its networked reality. Counter-manipulating imperial interdependencies of art and war, a conspiracy of consequences is set in motion that extends beyond the work’s as yet visible horizons.
Christopher Kulendran Thomas (born 1979, based in London) studied at the MFA program in Fine Art at Goldsmiths (University of London). One of the UK’s most promising up-and-coming artists, his recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include Banner Repeater (London), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin), Mercer Union (Toronto) and Boetzelaer|Nispen (Amsterdam).