Was But Still Is - An Exhibition by Tom Mackie
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'Was But Still Is' is a solo exhibition by Tom Mackie.
Mixing the languages of Absurdism and the Ready Made, Mackie transforms preexisting materials and objects into visual puzzles that relocate our understanding of them.
A series of painterly beige abstract works hold a secret. What we see are the reverse of found paintings and fabrics: a naive painted landscape and a work likely to be reproduced within a Hong Kong factory assembly line.
The canvases have been re-stretched and assembled to create new parallel works. Within these inverted paintings, layers of mark-making history build-up into a visible crust and are housed within the artist’s sculpted wooden frames.
In ‘Was but Still Is’ we are given pieces removed from their origin and invited to see behind what is often overlooked in everyday life.