 Nils Kasiske
Germany
Nils Kasiske's "Songbird's Suicide" is a moody comment of the digital world and its aesthetics, which turned a simple device into an icon of collective and uniformed attitude towards life. His objects´ surfaces are smooth, white and shiny, as we almost only know them from modern product design of lifestyle technologies such as iPod or iPhone. But Nils Kasiske's work is far away from just being a criticism of our consumption and is much too facetted, conceptual and ambivalent, to be understood in just one way. What we see in Nils Kasiske's paintings, drawings and installations are crime scenes, melancholic scenarios or surrealistic celebrations of happiness, what really happened is often unknown. To find answers for these questions, Nils Kasiske´s art needs two points of view: The artistic impulse as well as the individual interpretation of the viewer. It creates an opposition to the traditional, editorial story-telling of the media such as advertisement, marketing and politics. |
