Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini is thrilled to announce the first Canadian exhibition of Austrian artist Oliver Dorfer’s new image-icon paintings.

Since 2004, Dorfer has been creating his own syntax of signs, compressing the visual media of animation films, comix, children’s book illustrations, graphic design, video games, street and character art, logos, emblems, and mangas with acrylic colours painted directly onto plastic and also, for the first time this year, on an acrylic panel.

The shapes Dorfer uses are reduced without any depth, the colours are pure, featheredged distinguished from each other and covered with a glossy finish. The individual items of the image look like templates or foils that are superposed arranged and intersect each other. He plays with the competition of figure and ground, concrete and abstract composition.

Currently, Dorfer’s image concept is primarily an accumulative one. All kinds of sources are tapped as he mediates not only topically but also stylistically between Europe and Asia. Elements of Anglo-American Pop Culture and new cross-border artistic movements inspire his imaging process. Parallels to other established artists are recognizable in the oeuvre of Andy Warhol and Sigmar Polke, whose seriagraphically orientated use of citations, bears structural resemblance to Dorfer’s digital image transformation.