THE POST-IT NOTE QUESTION

THE POST-IT NOTE QUESTION

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James Aponovich

Assemblage: wood panel, paper, ink, 2014

To:  Aponovich 43

Re: Artwork

Title:  ?

Source:Blog post, # 15  A43

Dear A43,

I am quite interested in your use of the visual/ conceptual trajectory in your recent assemblage ? ( 2014).

 Your repurposing of the found object combined with the manual task of art marking engage and challenge the existing social matrix (zietgeist). The manipulation of a significant social artifact (post-it) coupled with the highly charged symbolic

 icon (?) enables you to reference the current, existential, nihilistic angst ( blank canvas/nothing). I find all this most refreshing.

    I look forward to following your explorations. Were you at ArtBasel? I don't recall seeing your work there.

                                   - Trevor F., Manhattan

                                      

A.  Uh.... No... I wasn't.

GOBBLEDYGOOK  ( GOB'  EL - DEE- GCOK )   n. ( coined by Maury Maverick 1895-1954)

                                                                Unclear wordy jargon.

THE ACCIDENTAL PAINTING

? Post-It Note

James Aponovich

oil on panel, 20" x 16", 2014

Sometimes you find paintings in the strangest places. In order to illustrate " Blank canvas brain freeze" in the last blog I set up a "still life' of a sticky note on a blank panel which became the basis for this painting.

The question is, why the question?

I don't really know.