Greene Naftali
Publication
Guyton\Walker
Skira, Milan.
Color
128 pages
5.9 x 8.26 inches
978886130833
Artist Page
The collaboration involving Wade Guyton (Hammond, Indiana, USA, 1972) and Kelly Walker (Columbus, Georgia, USA, 1969) does not mark the formation of a stable duo nor an occasional project, bur rather the approach of a self-standing personality, an actual “third artist”, which is not so much the fusion of their autonomous practices as the need to tackle concerns shared by both. By repossessing pre-existing images drawn from mass media, advertising, graphic design and art, GuytonWalker creates works as heterogeneous as the means of production and supports used to make them. The flatness of the source images takes on an installation dimension, which leads the two-dimensionality of the printed matter to dialogue with the three-dimensionality of the exhibition space, while the use of digital technologies allows these images to break free from their multi-layered set-ups the boundaries usually defining the author, his/her work or the museum are continually renewed by GuytonWalker, who in each exhibition engages in a real-time verification of their own consistency.