MARS Gallery presents Daniel Agdag at Volta14
Melbourne's MARS Gallery is off to Switzerland. The gallery will present a solo installation by sculpture Daniel Agdag at VOLTA14, Basel, as the only Australian Gallery exhibiting at this year's fair. VOLTA 14 will mark the first time Agdag has exhibited his work in Europe and comes after his recent solo exhibitions in New York and Melbourne. Daniel Agdag, 'Sample of No Value' exhibiting at VOLTA14 from June 11 - 16
Date: June 11 - 16, 2018
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Web: www.marsgallery.com.au
: https://www.facebook.com/MARSGallery/
: https://www.instagram.com/marsgallery/
Call: 61395217517
Melbourne's MARS Gallery is off to Switzerland. The gallery will present a solo installation by sculpture Daniel Agdag at VOLTA14, Basel, as the only Australian Gallery exhibiting at this year's fair. VOLTA 14 will mark the first time Agdag has exhibited his work in Europe and comes after his recent solo exhibitions in New York and Melbourne.
Daniel Agdag, 'Sample of No Value' exhibiting at VOLTA14 from June 11 - 16. Value systems determine the value of things. Sample of no value is a phrase used to ascribe the idea of no value to goods on a customs declaration, so as not to be quantified by an assessor, and thus have no value. This allows the item to pass freely between political and commercial borders without having to assert value and give compensation for the pleasure of doing so. It's as abstract a concept as infinity. Everything has a value until it doesn't. I am valued by the sum of my output, commodities are valued by an economy, people are valued by their ability to contribute to the value system.
In an attempt to measure value, rules are created and legislated, machines are programmed and employed to expedite the process of assigning the value equation. In essence all of these measure are held in place by a common belief and assisted with systematic persuasion.
'Sample of no value' is an interpretation of the process using an arrangement of fictitious machines the perform various functions concerning the ingesting, assessing, measuring and broadcasting of value.
The apparatus are detailed and impossibly intricate, forged principally from cardboard, to deliberately speak to a discord of fragility to the robust, opulence with commodity, simultaneously expendable yet precious.
Daniel Agdag, 'Sample of No Value' exhibiting at VOLTA14 from June 11 - 16. Value systems determine the value of things. Sample of no value is a phrase used to ascribe the idea of no value to goods on a customs declaration, so as not to be quantified by an assessor, and thus have no value. This allows the item to pass freely between political and commercial borders without having to assert value and give compensation for the pleasure of doing so. It's as abstract a concept as infinity. Everything has a value until it doesn't. I am valued by the sum of my output, commodities are valued by an economy, people are valued by their ability to contribute to the value system.
In an attempt to measure value, rules are created and legislated, machines are programmed and employed to expedite the process of assigning the value equation. In essence all of these measure are held in place by a common belief and assisted with systematic persuasion.
'Sample of no value' is an interpretation of the process using an arrangement of fictitious machines the perform various functions concerning the ingesting, assessing, measuring and broadcasting of value.
The apparatus are detailed and impossibly intricate, forged principally from cardboard, to deliberately speak to a discord of fragility to the robust, opulence with commodity, simultaneously expendable yet precious.