Cover the Earth IV NEW ORLEANS

Within his current body of
work, Cover the Earth, Anthony Baab experiments with objects and materials
associated with consumerism – packaging, advertisements, and logos. Baab views
an explicit sense of command and function conveyed through these containers,
perhaps more so than the commodities they hold or represent. Attempting to
regenerate these objects into something otherwise and redirect their pre-fixed
purposes towards aesthetic ends, Baab confronts the challenge of making these
objects his own. The work is compelled by a sense of misbehavior, evoking the
spirit and ethos of adolescence, inspired by doodling on a shoe, covering a
room with posters, and building a fort. 

As an itinerant, traveling
project, Cover the Earth is an ever expanding and mutating form that undergoes
a complete transformation from one location to the next. Between each location,
the sculptures are broken down, repaired and re-purposed, much like a collage.
Adding as many brands and objects as possible, the meaning and function of
these products dissolve over and over again, allowing for new meanings and
associations to form. -Three Walls

Cover the Earth III KANSAS CITY

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