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DESCRIPTION:Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present “A Glow That Transfers 
 Creativity”, a solo show by German born, Bay Area artist Mario Wagner. 
 The multi-media exhibition consists of technicolor paintings, collage-based 
 installations and hypnotic animations that flickering on old tube 
 televisions. By way of a fanciful color palette and retro-futurist style, 
 Wagner manifests a new world torn between the past and future, the old and 
 the new. His blend of digitally rendered and hand-crafted works projects an 
 eerie, yet entrancing look at the motions of a society so strange and yet, 
 at the same time, so familiar.\n\n"A Glow That Transfers Creativity" delves 
 into the ways in which collage reanimates the forgotten, the overlooked and 
 the discarded. A woman calling for her children at the dinner hour becomes 
 a brightly hued figure with beams of mysterious energy shooting from her 
 palms. Half the pleasure of interpreting Wagner's images lies in trying to 
 imagine their original formal constructs and contexts. The original images 
 are magazine cut outs, scanned, then transformed into abstracted shapes, 
 re-composed and then applied onto various surfaces including canvas, silk, 
 wood and digital screen. Finally, a heavy handed application of saturated 
 color further obscures the origins of the objects and subjects in his 
 works. The resulting images evoke memories of the iconic album cover art of 
 The Cure's “In between days” single.\n\nWagner’s debut exhibition 
 with the gallery is comprised of many different components, ranging from a 
 large scale installation to multimedia works in video, collage, fashion and 
 two dimensional paintings, all of which employ both analogue and digital 
 methods of manipulation. His large-scale work is comprised of elements from 
 his recent installation at ART.COM, which compliments his new series of two 
 dimensional paintings. A grouping of intimately sized canvases depict 
 unhinged scenarios of color that echoes their archived ancestors. These 
 vibrant interactions have also been translated into a silk scarf, expanding 
 the artist’s exploration of fashion as art. Wagner then translates his 
 images even further, morphing them into a group of several looping 
 animations. Focusing on the mundane actions of everyday life, each video 
 quietly grows more unnerving as the repetition continues. This silent 
 tension pulls throughout the show, resulting in Wagner’s hybridization of 
 time and space that speaks to a lost ideal of the future.\n\nWHAT:\nMario 
 Wagner’s solo show, “A Glow That Transfers 
 Creativity”\n\nWHERE:\nHashimoto Contemporary\n804 Sutter Street\nSan 
 Francisco, CA 94109\n\nWHEN:\nOpening night reception: Saturday April 5th, 
 6pm - 10pm\nHours of Operation: Tuesday - Saturday, noon to 6pm\nShow on 
 view until Saturday, April 26th\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/01/18753408.php
SUMMARY:Mario Wagner "A Glow That Transfers Creativity"
LOCATION:Hashimoto Contemporary\n804 Sutter Street\nSan Francisco, CA 94109
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/01/18753408.php
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