![]() ![]() When you’re eight years old nothing is your business (2012) depicts grey-toned video static and one barely legible word, “mama.” The painting acts as an aesthetic end point to the figurative portraits. Other paintings in the show travel into the realm of near-pure to pure abstraction. “I think that was a very common feeling for post-war Jewish thinkers, as they were trying to make sense of what happened.” ![]() “Whenever I read Fromm, I think he feels the same way I do about disconnection,” he says. Trubkovich also pays homage to Fromm by including a two-channel sound piece with a man and woman reciting the introduction to The Art of Loving. The connection is to the state of grace, not what’s really there now.” The way I can relate to the world is by emulating that disconnection. “Because I’m an immigrant, and also because I’m from a country that essentially no longer exists-the only connection I can have to Russia is a mnemonic connection, not a physical connection because the place I knew has disappeared. “I’m really interested in this path of disconnection,” says Trubkovich. Fittingly, the image that spawned this series is derived from a video recording of a party the artist’s mother threw before moving to the States. Unraveling that ball of yarn would be so unfun.”īorn in Russia, Trubkovich emigrated to the United States with his mother when he was 11 years old. “But how this image relates to me, and how this image relates to my mother-that’s a ball of yarn. “There was a reason I downloaded this particular image, of course,” says Trubkovich. “When I used this image of Lenny, it looked more like me.” Trubkovich is oblique, however, when revealing how Lenny Bruce the human might relate to him, and to the image of his mother. “I wanted to do a self portrait, and I kept taking pictures of myself, and it wouldn’t work,” says Trubkovich, who felt that the show, which is in some ways an analysis of the parent/child bond, required him to represent himself. “Each portrait becomes more distorted and more abstracted, one after the other,” Trubkovich told A.i.A., in his Brooklyn Navy Yard studio.Ĭomplementing these works is a “self portrait” Trubkovich made of himself from an image of Lenny Bruce, I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God (2012). The piece is followed by subsequent paintings of the same video still, each possessing less and less of the figurative elements of the first. The portrait is accented with low-resolution video scan lines the image is sliced through horizontally with seams of static, recalling a television screen displaying a paused video. ![]() Kon Trubokovich’s new show, “Leap Second,” at OHWOW gallery in Los Angeles takes as its inspiration not just Fromm’s amorous call to arms, which advocates for the creation of authentic love divorced from money and ambition, but also the physical act and mental conception of disintegration.Ĭonsisting of nine paintings, an audio installation and eight works on paper, the exhibition begins with Put my guns in the ground (all works, 2012), an oil-on-linen portrait that translates a video still of Trubkovich’s mom’s face, captured at a party. Erich Fromm’s 1956 book The Art of Loving-a treatise on developing one’s natural abilities toward authentic affection-includes a chapter titled “Love and Its Disintegration in Western Society.” The chapter argues that in Western culture capitalism has leeched meaning from relationships, causing contemporary society to view romantic partnerships as emblems of status. ![]()
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