#henry codax

Wolfgang Tillmans donated this laser print edition made as a fundraiser for Chisenhale Gallery as a fundraiser for 100 Artists for Gaza, to support Médecins sans Frontieres.

FWIW, one of the 100 artists, Henry Codax, is fictional, a creation of one, two or more people. So idk if that's 99 Artists for Gaza, or 101 Artists and 2-3 Dealers for Gaza, or what.

100 Artists for Gaza, If You Count Henry Codax [greg.org]

You may know Henry Codax from the giant monochrome paintings exhibited under his fictitious name by an anonymous collaboration of other art world denizens who got the character from a novel published by another fictitious artist and gallerist run by a corporation.

But now at Everybody, a gallery in Tucson Henry Codax is revealed to be an artist who does all that by showing paintings of QR codes that link to a monochrome webpage. It is at once a breakthrough, and a continuity, decoding what this project has been about all along.

images: henry codax, 2023 installation view from everybody.gallery; screenshot of untitled (b6688f), 2023 via henrycodax.com/b6688f.html

What About The Color Pink? Do You Like Pink?

Gallery view from left to right

Henry Codax, Untitled, n.d., 213 x 213 cm Valérian Goalec, Untitled, 2016, concrete and vase, various dimensions Matthew Feyld, Untitled, 2016, acrylic, pigments and modeling paste on canvas over panel, 40,5 x 40,5 cm Olivier Mosset, Untitled, 2010, 122 x 122 cm

What About The Color Pink? Do You Like Pink? 

03/12/16 - 15/01/17

A really interesting article about authorship in today’s art world. I especially like the part about Henry Codax, which is a nice story; a story in the sense that it navigates between reality and fiction, it blurs the limits between them.

I feel like those frontiers are blurred anyway. In today’s world, this manifests through technologies. Technologies have a close link with individuality and even identity.

You can link your smartphones to your email or facebook accounts to synchronize your contacts, agendas, etc. But this inter-connection needs an element in common and this element is the identity of the owner.

Even if it hasn’t necessarily your name: you are your facebook account, your gmail account, your twitter account, your youtube channel, your tumblr account, etc.