Untitled
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2011
Artist: Riccardo Andujar (Italian)
Dimensions:
8 x 15 x 15 cm
Medium: Synthetic modelling paste and foil
Object number: UAC 737
DescriptionRiccardo Andujar studied MA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Arts. He says:
'I’m interested in the head as a paradoxical, a-historical, de-identified object which bears an ambiguous status. A non-subject and non-object which call for unconscious relations and is perceived as something true.
I’m informed by the Socratic notion of “daemon” which informed the classical iconography of the Devil, as well as the Deleuzian one for which a daemon is an entity that grants the existence of unexplored paths within a recognizable system of knowledge. I’m researching around the head as a demonic entity from both a psychiatric and philosophical-critical point of view. By blurring and confusing historico-critical references in my work, I aim at making ambiguous object-daemons which reject immediate systematic interpretations but stand for a truth.'
'I’m interested in the head as a paradoxical, a-historical, de-identified object which bears an ambiguous status. A non-subject and non-object which call for unconscious relations and is perceived as something true.
I’m informed by the Socratic notion of “daemon” which informed the classical iconography of the Devil, as well as the Deleuzian one for which a daemon is an entity that grants the existence of unexplored paths within a recognizable system of knowledge. I’m researching around the head as a demonic entity from both a psychiatric and philosophical-critical point of view. By blurring and confusing historico-critical references in my work, I aim at making ambiguous object-daemons which reject immediate systematic interpretations but stand for a truth.'