Tobias Spichtig

Hi is just another word for Hello

10 Jan – 14 Feb 2020

Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan

Works

Serving the wave (2020), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Serving the wave*2020

Last drink in Berlin with Mihda and Paolo (who's inside the restaurant) before leaving for Paris., 2019, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 185 x 140 cm (undefined), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Last drink in Berlin with Mihda and Paolo (who's inside the restaurant) before leaving for Paris., 2019, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 185 x 140 cm*

Untitled, 2020, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 190 × 130 cm (undefined), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Untitled, 2020, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 190 × 130 cm*

Weltuntergang, 2020, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 195 × 145 cm (undefined), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Weltuntergang, 2020, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 195 × 145 cm*

Jakobita, 2017, Vinyl print on canvas, 180 × 125 cm (undefined), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Jakobita, 2017, Vinyl print on canvas, 180 × 125 cm*

Don't you think it´s a bit problematic., 2020, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 200 × 140 cm (undefined), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Don't you think it´s a bit problematic., 2020, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 200 × 140 cm*

Blumen im Topf, 2019, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm (undefined), Tobias Spichtig, Kaleidoscope At Spazio Maiocchi, Milan — Tobias Spichtig
*Blumen im Topf, 2019, Vinyl print and oil on canvas, 210 × 150 cm*

Installation Views

Press Release

The show HI IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR HELLO—featuring a series of new paintings and a site-specific installation of disused electric appliances—expands on Spichtig’s ongoing fascination with environmental interventions, conceived as claustrophobic scenarios where the viewer feels like an intruder.

Inspired by tattoos, typography and ornaments, Spichtig’s paintings investigate the duality of the sign, intended both as global and personal at the same time. The canvases—deriving from vinyl prints of appropriated images and iPhone shots heat pressed onto the surface and subsequently painted with oil—investigate the nature of the painting as the ultimate luxury: an image that will last forever.

Spichtig’s works are often installed in spaces that he fills wall-to-wall with multiples of a single type of domestic consumer good—mattresses, kitchen tables, refrigerators, couches—so that the paintings themselves are partially blocked from the visitor’s view. In his exhibition at Spazio Maiocchi, the artist will incorporate a wall of second-hand air conditioners, a discarded commodity chosen for the immaterial, invisible quality of its task: transforming air and energy.

A billboard commission in the courtyard of Spazio Maiocchi completes the exhibition.

Caroline Busta