Malta Contemporary, Valletta
Tobias Spichtig
Fridge and Mind
19 January – 03 March 2018
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Wandern mit Erwin 1, 2018, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 180 × 125 cm
Earth, 2018, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 190 × 135 cm
Staring at Canvas, Primed Nr. 2, 2018, Raw canvas, resin, diamond dust, 180 × 130 cm
Staring at Canvas, Unprimed Nr. 2, 2018, Raw canvas, resin, diamond dust, 180 × 125 cm
Staring at Canvas, Primed Nr. 1, 2018, Raw canvas, resin, diamond dust, 180 × 125 cm
Third Eye, 2018, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 170 × 130 cm
Piano Piano, 2018, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 210 × 170 cm
Seifenblase auf Rot , 2018, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 180 × 165 cm
Press release
The fridge is an institution, even more so than buildings and people. The fireplace of most lives, primarily spent inside, with the plan libre, plan der Freiheit, as a basis of negotiating one’s state of being real. It functions like real estate, holding a steady cold climate to host some rotten basic needs, by using energy and producing heat in exchange. Opening it to see what is missing is like saying hi to the personnel at the counter
n a museum or gallery where the lights are not yet on. It stands for the body as architecture. It stands for people.
Painting is the mind, the economy behind some desired congruence of being. The material pretending to mean something totally other than it is, preceding language, like the third eye appearing as blank, when one meditates too hard