JUAN CRESPO ’Simoncelli’ @liquidgold.studios London In 2011 Marco Simoncelli died during the Malaysia Moto GP Grand Prix as a consequence of an accident that involved four other drivers. JG Ballard released his most popular novel Crash in 1976. It rapidly enlarged the list of bestsellers in the science fiction genre. In the book, written after his wife passed away, there are monsters – as in almost every SF story – but this time embodied in psychological and internal fears. It represented a total abstraction of the alien or phantom monster cliché, which is probably what makes the book such a milestone. In 1946 Malaysia broke away from British rule and became an independent territory. Darko Suvin defined science fiction in his essay “Science Fiction Studies” (1970) as an “archaeology of the future”. Sherryl Vint analyses the book in the following terms: “For Survin SF provides a transformative vision of a full social world, and he is suspicious of the limiting attitude of hard interpretation of the subject that demands real possibility versus speculative and open approaches.” In 2019 Monster Beverage sold around 420 million Monster Energy drinks in the US alone. This translated to over 1.1 billion USD in sales...Captain Cook's Journals (1768–79) often included passages where, with literary aspirations, the landscapes of the new territories are pompously described. These descriptions also included anthropological assessments of the native people. It is not uncommon to find wording such as “savages” or “monsters” within his portraits, for instance, in relation to Southern Asian locals. This exhibition is conceived as an accident, embraces the crash, aspires to a certain level of independence, underlines speculation, and avoids pompous landscape descriptions. #juancrespo #installationart #painting #contemporaryart #liquidgoldstudios #london (en Southampton Row, London, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci8QiC_oI4j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
