Re-Production exhibition challenges art market orthodoxy through digital distribution

At P! gallery, there's an exhibition called Re-Production featuring artists Arthur Ou, Marc Handelman, and Peter Rostovsky, exploring art and simulation. Ou’s black-and-white photos, Double Light Leak 1 and Double Light Leak 2 from 2010, link traditional painting techniques with photography. Handelman’s 2013 artwork, Extrusion/Drift, resembles marble but reveals its construction through unpainted canvas and reflective glass. Meanwhile, Rostovsky breaks away from conventional painting with his digital work, Night Blossoms (2012), created using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet. This piece is free to download, and the gallery displays two identical Duratrans transparencies in LED lightboxes. Rostovsky critiques the art market's fixation on scarcity and originality, inspired by the Occupy movements, and questions the value of mass-produced art, referencing the 1983 LP Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order. This exhibition, which is the third at P!—the design studio Project Projects’ project space—first occurred in Summer 2013. He argues that paintings often serve only a privileged few, leaving the majority out.