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cueB gallery is proud to present ‘ The world of Pop Amok’, an intriguing new exhibition by German artist Richard Alexander Heckert.
Imagine that your brain is a defective archive and everything breaks down and gets confused. Movies, music, comics, art, literature and everyday life falls into a mental meltdown in which boundaries of the inside condition no longer are separated from outer life. A panopticon of superlatives in a fast world of moments, which is more fragile than we think. We live restless and without compromise and the sense of the essentials are out of sight.
The aesthetics of Pop Amok understands itself as contemporary art that deals with the speed with which the presence is radically changed by technology.
This art corresponds to the aesthetics of a new cosmopolitan generation - the generation of anti-pop.
Heckert’s work interprets the internal and external conditions of the postmodern world of superlatives. What initially looks funny and colourful, is depressing and frightening with a closer look.
His addiction to document the modern life in detail is the joy of nonconformity. Illustrations about the present can be refined by the detail and performed to excess.
The Pop Amok is a kind of update of the poster-art aesthetic of the counterculture of the late sixties of the 20th century. It is the culture of video games, of industrialisation and technology idolisation.
Heckert motto is, slow down, take your time, let's not rush and trust your natural abilities.
cueB Gallery
325 Brockley Road
London
SE4 2QZ
United Kingdom
