‘Clean and fresh’ – Thomas Øvlisen 9/10
£470.00
‘Clean and fresh’ Edition 9/10
172 x 60 x 60mm
Silver-plated accessoire de bureau
2024
Thomas Øvlisen’s new edition for Assembly Line, entitled ’TeDeen FumVe’ offers a collection of gleaming silver-plated accessoires de bureau derived from the vacuum-formed vessels of everyday food & drink containers. True to Øvlisen’s understated neo-utopian style these ten trophies-of-the-trash put up a utilitarian stance against 21st Century excesses, whilst navigating a wily path through the art/consumer process.
’Tedeen FumVe’ consists of 10 distinct cut-down pots put through a course of silver-plating electro-fusion. The process echoes the alchemic Koonsian transformation of everyday objects from the banal to the beatific while pointing to the utilitarian tools of the artist’s studio. As such, Øvlisen collects the fallout from hyper-abundant consumerism and re-contextualises its value, drawing attention away from conspicuous wealth, and back to the garret where it really matters. His earnest mission is to supply mementos of nouveaux proletarian luxury which speak for the contemporary moment, and cuts Koons down to size.
This exclusive limited edition performs a classic seduction by simulation, a recycling of the readymade, and a mirror to human behaviour, literally. What Baudrillard described as ‘the obscene promiscuity of consumer signs’ is addressed in ’Tedeen FumVe’, offering a pointed yet caring take on the best and worst of human habits.
©Assembly Line 2024
“The containers are all typical artist studio holders of brushes, thinners and are staples of the artist studio. They are there right in front of me. They are reused for a third time. They are taken out of the waste cycle (if you buy one, team work, it takes two to fuck shit up).”
©Thomas Øvlisen 2024
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