LEO FITZMAURICE

'..removes visual ‘noise’ so that we consider what the products once signified and how they have changed'

'After the Fitzmaurice treatment we can no longer listen to the seller's message, hence the show’s title: You try to tell me but I never listen. Behold 6000 flyers which have been reborn as a shimmering rainbow of colour. Meanwhile, their 'white noise' has been transformed. That is to say, the words integral to the thousands of sheets of brightly coloured paper have been obscured. All text has been alchemised; their original didacticism rendered decorative and indecipherable.

Some call this process 'sous rature'; a stripping away, the aesthetic of 'visible absence', or the lyrical and revelatory effects of removal. The mass-produced printed material has been layered, folded, inverted, recontextualised, and converted into fresh patterns, manifestations and forms. Spread over 12 plinths and on to two walls, Fitzmaurice has created polychromatic repeating patterns and alignments: the visual equivalent of hypnotic bass-beats. This 'design-bending' appears most notably in his cylindrical zoetropes, which hint at animation as a result of variations on folding the same flyer. Meanwhile, further flyers, hung in strips on the walls, move very slightly in the breeze.

http://www.artselector.com/review/leo-fitzmaurice-you-try-to-tell-me-but-i-never-listen-the-new-art-gallery