Jack Holden - ‘Disney Stole My Soul’
14
maart – 25 april 2009
Mart House Gallery presents the first solo
show from Jack Holden ‘Disney stole my soul’. Jack Holden
(1979, England, Nottingham) finished his two years residency at the
Ateliers in Amsterdam last year. He is nominated in the last two years
for the Royal Awards for Painting, Gemeente Museum, The Hague. At the
end of last year he received the Buning Brongers prize, a prize for
young painters. Although he has a background as a video artist and
photographer, he has focused mostly on painting and collage over the
past three years.
His work is also often influenced by cinema, providing
potential cast, setting, and narrative for the viewers’ interpretation,
subtly entwining the audience's personal references with his own.
The found image is an imperative source for his work, partly to be
true to the fact that he is influenced by the present culture of
mass imagery and also as a way of acknowledging the strange and poetic
juxtapositions which occur in everyday life.
Jack Holden use found
imagery mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, decades that represent the
dawn of contemporary advertising. He uses found images as a symbol
of modern culture and as a way of reflecting on the constant bombardment
of imagery that we are subjected to in our day-to-day life. His work
is often commenting on contemporary advertising and the pressures
that come with it for people to somehow 'better' themselves.
