Atelier Van Lieshout

Crypto Container Helmet

2016

Mixed media
89 x 77 x 150 cm

In his new body of work CryptoFuturism, Joep van Lieshout revisits the Italian Futurists a century later to look at resonances between emerging Fascist tendencies today, using his art to reveal the interplay between Utopia and destruction. Van Lieshout embraces emerging technologies from genetic manipulation to robotics and big data to draw parallels between the societal threats faced in the early 20th century and the perhaps graver circumstances we face today. Starting his research by building huge machines in order to destroy or recycle all possible materials, Joep van Lieshout deconstructs notions of sustainability with techno modernist speed, playing a dangerous game with nostalgia for bygone political theorems.

The Crypto Helmets refer to new rituals by groups of individuals that want to go back to the origin of the industrial revolution and food production. Their final goals is to become one with the machine.

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