Mauro C. Martinez and Ed Ruscha: Text? Image? or Both?
Mauro C. Martinez, an artist whose solo exhibition The Last Man is currently on view at our Mayfair gallery, often utilises text to document internet culture and to comment on our relationship with technology and the digital world. Another artist who similarly employs text to deal with more conceptual concerns is Ed Ruscha, whose work will be featured in our upcoming group exhibition Sign Systems, opening on the 5th of July. Rather than presenting the viewers with an intricate pictorial image, Martinez and Ruscha use text to entice them into a subjective contemplation.