Wade Guyton's Quasi-Real-Time Works at Giò Marconi

Wade Guyton (born 1972 in Indiana) blurs the line between production and exhibition by creating works almost in real time. In May 2017, he moved his team and tools to the Madre museum in Naples for a residency. The resulting exhibition then traveled to Giò Marconi in Milan in an "abbreviated form," as the self-deprecating title states, adapting to the gallery's spaces. A table covered with semi-rolled blue tarps suggests an interrupted studio session, while ten large canvases on the walls appear rigorous and orderly. They recount the Neapolitan residency through seemingly insignificant details: the museum's windows disassembled for frame transport, the Wi-Fi modem installed at the artist's request, and a screenshot of Il Mattino (a reference to Warhol's Fate presto). Imperfect images, whose inkjet printing reveals flaws or transforms them into fascinating monochrome abstractions, create a short circuit between analog and digital.