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DISPATCHES
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DAnIEl GuzmAn
AnD STEvEn SHEARER
The artworld is currently
saturated with male-oriented
art made by the High Fidelity
slacker generation – David
Blandy and Ryan McGinley, to
name a couple. A forthcoming
exhibition at the New Museum,
New york, however, picks out
two artists, Canadian Steven
Shearer and Mexican Daniel
Guzmán, who go beyond
the usual recycling of retro Guzmán echoes this theme with
geek-chic, rock nostalgia his idolising ballpoint-pen
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and investigations into caricatures on paper of John
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c masculinity to present a bringing forth memories of
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e meticulously observed, subtly doodles on exercise books.
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, autobiographical study into His work goes further, looking
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the development from at his own Mexican identity
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adolescence to adulthood. and the impact US and European
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large-scale photomontages of interplay between pop
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Web images, the Kaleidoscope culture and the traditional
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typical. He has continued this a role in both heavy metal
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aesthetics of youth in his representation it carries
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painted works and biro in Mexican culture of
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the subject matter acting as a Despite the title, rock ’n’
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internal development. Oliver Basciano
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