Click Mort
"Nonstalgia"
August 3 - September 2, 2012
Artist Reception: Friday, August 3rd; 8-11 PM
Nostalgia is little more than confabulation pasted into a scrapbook. Our attraction to the past rests primarily on inaccurate memories and near-total fabrications: more accurate but less appealing recollections are either buffed to an unnaturally high gloss or discarded in favor of some more appealing fiction.
Click Mort's current show, Nonstalgia, reflects his fascination with creating the material equivalents to these reconstructed memories. His pieces combine elements of authentic vintage porcelain figurines, painstakingly disassembled and reassembled to produce an artifice where incoherent objectivities are made to appear not only coherent, but familiar. They are souvenirs of a time and place that never existed and nothing more than nonstalgia.
Mr. Mort is a Los Angeles native with a lifelong enthusiasm for things that delight the senses and scramble the brain. His formal training consists of a high school ceramics class during which his pieces had a tendency to explode in the kiln. Given this unfortunate history with raw clay, he has since opted to work only with pre-fired materials.
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