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With “Plastic Newspaper”, Scottish artist Lucy McKenzie (b. 1977) returns to the major themes that have marked her work over the past five years: statuary, fashion and window art, feminist critiques of power and elites, craft, leisure and mass media. Lucy McKenzie explores the formal and cultural inventions that have helped transform everyday life into a permanent spectacle?like painted panoramas, places of art, science and amusement where playful experience and massification of the gaze merge.The title of the exhibition “Plastic Newspaper” is a metaphor borrowed from historian Vanessa R. Schwartz to think about new media. The title of the exhibition “Plastic Newspaper” is a metaphor borrowed from historian Vanessa R. Schwartz to think of modern new media assembling visual, sound and spatial content in the same way as the Musée Grévin, which made three-dimensional paintings to show the facts of “real life”.the exhibition includes the participation of artist Reba Maybury and designer Beca Lipscombe. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Z33, House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture (Hasselt, Belgium); Franz-Josefs-Kai 3 (Vienna, Austria); Galerie Daniel Buchholz (Berlin/Cologne, Germany); Cabinet Gallery (London, UK) and with the participation of the University of Montpellier and its Faculty of Medicine (Montpellier, France).
