Egan Frantz - Baguette and Crab - Frying pan for making baguette in aluminum, wax seal, frame - 2013 - 80x105 cm
egan frantz
Born in Norwalk, CT, USA, 1986
Lives and works in New York, USA
Being a millennial young enough to have grown up using computers but old enough to remember drawing his name in the sand with a stick, Frantz's attitude towards making a painting does not, as such, embrace digital technologies as his predecessors might. He uses digital technologies with the casualness one might use a hammer. His familiarity with the digital space springs ideologically into painterly space and back.
Quote the artist:
Advanced art has become greatly difficult for two obvious reasons. The creative development of mimesis has been closed to the painter for about 100 years, while the pure creation of forms has been closed to the painter for about 50 years. Let's go back further. Imagine a stone. Inside this stone is the Venus of Willendorf. The Venus is always already there, someone only had to come along and chip away the stone that conceals her. Was it a problem for the ancients, that everything was always already there? Why is it a problem then, for artists today, that everything is already here?
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