| MonitorOctober 10, 2008- November 15, 2008Reception: October 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The object that we call "monitor" is at once ubiquitous, obsolete, and in the end, perhaps a non-object because we gaze into its pixilated illusion, never directly at its shape and mass. Today the beige boxes adorn sidewalk trash piles because their cathode ray tubes have recently given way to the solid-state flatscreen. In a backwards alchemical shift, they have morphed from object of desire into "e-waste" (they end up in China where villages burn them to extract precious metals). In this sense, they now monitor the speed of consumption.
Noah Fischer's new group of sculptures ask us to re-consider these objects at the pregnant intersection between trash and promise. Promise not only of new vision technologies, but of the aesthetics of Modernism itself in its search for the perfect form. Drawing on the examples of Donald Judd, the Apple design team, Nam June Paik, Haim Steinbach, and Brancusi, Fischer creates lanterns, freestanding sculpture, furniture, and found-object bricolage that short-circuit patterns of visual consumption.
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