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Aziz + Cucher at ClampArt
One is unswayed by Messr.s Aziz and Cucher’s re-processing of digital photographs. Essentially, what they do is reprocess large images such that they become in a manner of speaking, pixelated, or even pointillized, composed of little segments of color generated by some algorithm or other. But, who cares.
Little is done to the images that was not present before (they were large and highly detailed), and the images themselves are of humdrum pastorality, of a sort of stock-photo level of professionalism. Additionally this critic tires of photography being manipulated, as if mastery of Photoshop were some creative achievement. I daresay such an approach is flimsy and crummy, and requires a strong hand to transcend the shabbiness of the approach; but no such conceptual heft is to be found here.
“In these works,” goes the PR, “the pixel is highly pronounced [...] to point to the fact that the world, like the body, is constructed of tiny particles and elements.” As you wish, however, this critic found the result lazy and unsuccessful in inducing in one an awareness of such digital existence. Persons of culture shall only become aware of yet another display predicated on wan conceptuality.
