Karl Haendel
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Installation view, Karl Haendel: Uncertain States of America - Art in the 3rd Millenium, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2006
Born: 1976, New York
Based: Los Angeles
Represented by: Anna Helwing, Los Angeles
Haendel’s meticulous drawings frequently attempt to locate the source within the endless circularity of signs. In simultaneously obscuring and exposing the way in which the familiar masquerades as the real, the relativity of truth in representation is interrogated. The appropriation of found imagery, often photographic in its origin, coupled with a salon-style manner of display, consciously forges multiple layers of meaning, and the simulacra spread, virus-like, throughout his installations. In adding to, rather than paring down, the complex relationships between object and viewer Haendel mines a rich vein of disparate sources and seeks to entangle and suspend the onlooker (and himself) in a thick web of associations, doffing his cap in turn to art history, language and the power of connotation.
