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With
a tip of the hat to Robert Rauschenburg, Sean, of generation X age, quickly
moves to speak of television and popular media as the source of his inspiration.
If his robotic characters have a tinge of familiarity it is because of
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And
yet for all its Pop and PoMO the work also raises issues of the human and
the technological. The exhibition's thematic centre piece renders
a problematic connection between the human, a short order cook (an in-joke
with Sean and his friends who all work in the restaurant service industry)
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As
we hung the show, Sean spoke of a formal concern throughout the work, that
is, the relationship of the various pieces to the floor, whether implied
- incomplete rendering of feet, broom as object within the work to speak
of floor, or explicit - drop cloth or the like connecting painting to floor.
Floor, grounding, foundations. One's sense of values in a technological
age.
Michael
Coughlin: Curator |
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