‘The Last Adventure’ - Adam Gruning
In ‘The Last Adventure’ recent graduate Adam Grüning explores a relationship between the consumer, the
gallery and the explorer through the use of subtle word play and familiar shop
signage design. The work employs a humour and attempts to investigate a
possible social dilemma of what is left to do and discover in a spectacle-based
society under the superficialities of consumerism.
Grüning’s
work centres around elements of design, placement and choice towards various
spectacles in society, with his current concerns revolving around the display
of imagery and visual communication. There are continuous gestures relating to
permanence, existence, spectacle and language in his work, in some way
questioning or re-addressing a relationship with it. It is most often through
photography that he formalises his work, as it is a medium that he feels
handles the dialogue of image and design most directly. Previous work such as
‘Shit Sprayed Chrome,’ displays these characteristics and nature of his
practice in creating a conversation between notions of the situationists as
well as the medium of photography itself. However, most recently, and on
exhibition here, his practice has developed into investigations of text works.
Adam is currently one of two AirSpace Gallery graduate resident artists and is showing this work as an interim exhibition in the Gallery's window space, as his residency nears its halfway point.
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