Michael Raedecker
[Painting] might not be compatible with the times we live in; it can’t keep up with TV or the media. But since the media is omnipresent we need a barrier against ‘reality’ …
Michael Raedecker via Flash Art, 2000
Chairs, curtains, plants, bungalow houses: the objects depicted in Michael Raedecker’s (1963, the Netherlands) paintings are familiar things. Mute witnesses of our daily lives – the countless hours we’ve forgotten, the split seconds we will remember forever – they have the quality of stage props in an unending domestic saga. Raedecker’s approach to painting is to give traditional subject matters a new twist by using methods and procedures of picture making not usually associated with image-based painting.
