Ryan’s Web 1.0

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Ryan Trecartin
Ryan’s Web 1.0. A Lossless Fall

Publisher: LINK Editions, Brescia 2012
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Ryan Trecartin (born in 1981 in Webster, Texas) is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2004. Solo exhibitions include Any Ever (Power Plant, Toronto 2009; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2010; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami 2011); MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York 2011; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 2011; Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
In 2009 Trecartin was the recipient of the first Jack Wolgin Fine Art Prize, presented by the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, which recognizes the highest level of artistic excellence on an international level. The same year he received the Calvin Klein Collection New Artist of the Year Award at The First Annual Art Awards, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

 

 

Editor’s Note

 

In November 2010, Ryan Trecartin published in the fashion and design magazine “W” the portraits of four of his long time collaborators: Lizzie Fitch, Veronica Gelbaum, Telfar Clemens, and Ashland Mines. The group was titled “A Lossless Fall 2010”. Presented in the form of complex hypertexts, assemblages of hundreds of images, brands, styles, icons, references, accessories, products, snippets of text, and bits of other people’s bodies, the portraits show post-human, post-technological beings, mutable when it comes to physical form, sexual identity, and their relationship with the world of products and information. Each portrait is the result of an extensive research into images, and postproduction leaves no details of the original photo intact.

The extensive research done by Trecartin and his collaborators was published in the experimental online magazine “DIS” under the title “Ryan’s Web 1.0”, offering an “inside gaze” into the inspiration for the spread and allowing readers to browse through the hundreds of images researched and collected to make the pieces.

But the Dis Magazine set is more than that. This collection of images, compiled and commented in a idiosyncratic mood-board, is also an invaluable screenshot of juvenile culture at a given time, as it is performed on, mediated and influenced by the internet, where fashion trends, new jargon, digital folklore and internet memes flow, get remixed and collapsed into each other.

Done on the occasion of the presentation of the exhibition Collect the WWWorld. The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age at 319 Scholes, New York (October 18 – November 4, 2012), this book presents the W Magazine set together with this background documentation, in order to allow the reader to better get into what we believe is already an iconic, seminal piece of contemporary art.

Domenico Quaranta

 

 

Anti-Virals + Ashland Mines, 2010

 

Negative Beach + Lizzie Fitch, 2010

 

 

Again Pangea + Telfar Clemens, 2010

 

 

 

Easy Middle + Veronica Gelbaum, 2010

 

 

Credits

Creative Director: Ryan Trecartin

Postproduction: Pascal Dangin and Michelle Lueking

Photography: Sebastian Kim

Hair: Brent Lawler

Makeup: Pep Gay

Manicures: Honey @ Exposure NY

Set and prop construction: Jason Curtis

Digital technician: Kinya Ota

Fashion tailoring and material consultant: Lauren Devine

Massage flip’flop shoes: DIS magazine editors David Toro and Solomon Chase

Compositor and file consultant: Ryder Ripps

3-D oil wave model: Sally Thurer

3-D porch screen model: Tabor Robak

Photography assistants: Zach Michael, Paolo di Lucente

Associate accessories editor: William Kahn

Associate jewelry editor: Nicole Keating

DIS magazine (online publication of instructional PDFs): Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, Nick Scholl, David Toro, Patrik Sandberg, S. Adrian Massey III

Special thanks to: Michelle Lueking at Box, Elizabeth Dee, Sally Thurner, Tabor Robak, Nicole Miller, Jennifer Behr, Abacus, Ed Hardy, David Samuel Menkes, Gap, Diesel, Alexander Wang, and Nike.