Everything must go, (1)
(2022)
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 244.1 × 132.2 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Inscription
- inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.r.: 22.
inscribed (vertically) (inverted) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.r.: GZ . - Accession Number
- 2022.788
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by July Cao, 2022
© Sayre Gomez - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Sayre Gomez’s hyperrealist paintings explore the tenuous relationship between our everyday surroundings and increasingly manipulated digital culture. Everything must go, (1) depicts a run-down shop window covered with the remnants of old advertisements, past remains of spectacle and newness. Gomez presents Los Angeles as a site of urban decay and commercial nostalgia, distinct from the romanticised and mythologised images often seen in representations of the city. His work is semi-fictionalised, employing a diverse set of techniques, including trompe l’oeil (deception of the eye), airbrushing and Hollywood set-painting methods. Realistic reflections of passing cars complicate the painting’s surface and act as reminders of the urban setting.
