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Almine Rech

Kadar Brock cast with flashback cast with flashback

Nov 19 — Dec 19, 2015 | Brussels
Inquire about the exhibition: inquiries@alminerech.com

Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present cast with flashback cast with flashback, an exhibition of new paintings by New York City-based artist Kadar Brock. Brock will display the latest works from three of his ongoing series of paintings. These bodies of works interrelate. The material produced through the scraping down of one painting generates the paint chips that produce another, the sanding down of which generates the dust that comprises yet another.

The title of the exhibition refers to a mechanic in the card-based fantasy game Magic: The Gathering, which Brock plays. The text “Cast with Flashback” appears when a player is able to reuse a spell that they had already used previously. By this special exception, something that should have been relegated to the past is made present and active again. This not only suggests Brock’s longstanding use of game-derived spell casting systems, both analogue and digital, as processes to organize and guide his activity on the canvas. But it also resonates with Brock’s references to a preexisting painting vocabulary derived from Modernism. These include: the color field, a process-based approach, a reflexivity of materials and content to the way the work was made, and to the material terms of painting itself. All of these Brock consciously derives from the toolbox of art history and replays in ways that, like these re-accessed spells, are drawn from the past, but are refigured as active agents in the present.

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Selected artworks

  • Kadar Brock,                                      residuumix, 2015

    Kadar Brock residuumix, 2015

    Pulverized paintings, urethane, and fiber glass mesh on panel, with custom mdf frame
    157,5 x 106,7 cm (framed)

  • Kadar Brock,                                      residuumx, 2015

    Kadar Brock residuumx, 2015

    residuumx, 2015 Pulverized paintings, urethane, and fiber glass mesh on panel, with custom mdf frame
    157,5 x 106,7 cm (framed)

  • Kadar Brock,                                      residuumxi, 2015

    Kadar Brock residuumxi, 2015

    Pulverized paintings, urethane, and fiber glass mesh on panel, with custom mdf frame
    157,5 x 106,7 cm (framed)
    62 x 42 inches (framed)

  • Kadar Brock,                                      residuumxii, 2015

    Kadar Brock residuumxii, 2015

    Pulverized paintings, urethane, and fiber glass mesh on panel, with custom mdf frame
    157,5 x 106,7 cm (framed)
    62 x 42 inches (framed)

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxiii(wtfjtg), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxiii(wtfjtg), 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    182,9 x 121,9 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxiii(wtfjtg), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxiii(wtfjtg), 2015

    Detail

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxv(idkwya), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxv(idkwya), 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    182,9 x 243,8 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemioaiptktw, 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemioaiptktw, 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas 182,9 x 152,4 cm
    72 x 60 inches

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemitb, 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemitb, 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    182,9 x 152,4 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxviiii(ditd), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxviiii(ditd), 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    182,9 x 121,9 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxviiii(ditd), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxviiii(ditd), 2015

    Detail
    182,9 x 121,9 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxv(hms), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxv(hms), 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    182,9 x 121,9 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxvii (la), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxvii (la), 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    152,4 x 121,9 cm

  • Kadar Brock,                                      rdnsxii, 2015

    Kadar Brock rdnsxii, 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, spray paint, ink, and urethane on canvas on panel
    152,4 x 101,6 cm (framed)
    60 x 40 inches (framed)

  • Kadar Brock,                                      rdnsxii, 2015

    Kadar Brock rdnsxii, 2015

    Detail
    152,4 x 101,6 cm (framed)

  • Kadar Brock,                                      deredemirtdxiv(iwiwao), 2015

    Kadar Brock deredemirtdxiv(iwiwao), 2015

    Oil, acrylic, flashe, house paint, and spray paint on canvas
    182,9 x 243,8 cm

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