Dirk Skreber in dispassionate grey tones, the subject matter is completely dehumanised. The double image, like Warhol's prints, suggests an emotional absence. Icy in its clinical detachment, It Rocks Us… offers an empty spiritualism, transfixing the viewer with its awesome and ethereal presence.Dirk Skreber sells revulsion on the merits of sex appeal. Painted with the soft focus of advertising, his car crash doesn't glorify death but renders it more intimate through the astringent gloss of pop. Dirk Skreber's mesmerising painting broaches the unthinkable. Alluring in its sterile beauty, the surface promises nothing beyond our commodified conception of the infinite: a terrible fascination glimmering with airbrushed newness.Dirk Skreber reconstitutes the mundane as the object of an all-consuming fixation. Completely static, the painting is removed from all measurable qualities of perception. It represents a generic stand-in for overwhelming sensations of inadequacy and incomprehension.
Dirk Skreber's futurist building is as alien in its construction as its isolated setting. Stretching to an unlucky 13 floors, this glass skyscraper suggests a contemporary Tower of Babel. Encapsulating the trappings of opulence, Dirk Skreber's precarious structure sits in impending conflict against the encroaching forest, the surrounding territory neatly divided between cultivation and wilderness.Dirk Skreber uses aerial perspective to enhance the dizzying effect. The image is in fact a shopping mall roof: a generic icon of lifestyle comfort. Made strange in its oblique angle, Skreber dehumanises the familiar, conjuring ominous thoughts of horror films; inconceivable desolation in a place of intimate consequence.
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