Portrait of the Gallerist by Andrew McKay, 2008
Andrew McKay (Ottawa, Canada), The Gallerist, 2008, Acrylic, Ink & Graphite on Wood Panel, 24 x 24 inches. Gift from the artist.
Asking $600
Artist Statement:
“Ellipsis is what is left out of everyday life: the pleasure we can’t find amongst day jobs and the nightly television programme–and moreso–the pleasure of even struggling for pleasure itself. Backward social relations once lead to a unity against all that would deny us… today the mass line is to turn our dissatisfaction inwards. This occurs either through the association of ourselves with the obsolete and alienated images of a spectacular-economy, or even worse, in the intensified glorification of petty (banal) personal “problems.” Along that vein, the individual (as interpreted through the bourgeois lense) does not resemble what he or she could potentially be, and should cease to be considered an individual. The communications here deal both with the degenerative nature of bourgeois culture, and as is appropriate, adopts an even harsher front towards half-hearted attempts to oppose it. You’d better breakout, because this generation can’t afford to leave anything to chance…” Andrew McKay, 2006
“Isolation a deux cannot confront the effect of general isolation. Pleasure is broken off prematurely and lovers find themselves naked in the world, their actions suddenly ridiculous and pointless. No love is possible in an unhappy world.”
–Raoul Vaneigem
“The personal life is dead… history has killed it!”
–Strelnikov