Mark Leckey's UniAddDumThs Opens at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in Rome

Mark Leckey's exhibition 'UniAddDumThs' at Gavin Brown's Enterprise in Rome runs until July 16, 2016. The show is a surrogate of his 2013 Hayward Gallery exhibition 'The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things,' which materialized digital images from his computer into physical objects. Leckey created copies of most objects from that show, assembling a fetishistic and surreal collection that includes works by Ed Atkins, Piero di Cosimo, Max Ernst, Miroslav Tichý, William Blake, and Louise Bourgeois, as well as cultural artifacts like the rocking phallus from A Clockwork Orange and Felix the Cat. The exhibition explores the problematic relationship between object and simulacrum, archetype and replica, entangled with digital reality and the world of desires, mystifications, and factoids.