Sadie Coles HQ in London is hosting an exhibition by New York-based artist Borna Sammak that will be on view through November 5, 2016.Sammak's works are juxtapositions of encryptions of materials of daily life, sourced from the artist’s surroundings and from the realms of film, TV and Youtube. Through a combination of sculpture, painting and video, he separates and recombines mundane objects and texts- signs, slogans, clothes or cartoons into compressed metaphors and dense patterns. These works reflect current of awkwardness, humor and doom. This process of fusing everyday objects with multiple, even contradictory elements defines the artist’s approach to the found texts and images which are scattered in his works. In his paintings, Sammak has depicted the adverts and notices seen in New York, using vinyl transfers and enamel paint, in which the arrangement of texts echo the artful simplicity and conceptualist ‘word paintings’, but in place of wry statements, they reflect fragments of desultory reality. Through his large-scale sculpture in the exhibition ‘Two Full Height Turnstiles Stuck in Each Other’, he evokes the complex designs of Constructivism, engendering a sculptural language poised between allusive form and absurd content, created out of simple utilitarian devices. Throughout his works, Sammak employs a pastiche as both an aesthetic and critical mode.The exhibition is on view at Sadie Coles HQ, 9 Balfour Mews, London W1K 2BG, United Kingdom. For details, visit www.sadiecoles.comClick on the Slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.
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