About The Lumiére Brothers
ARTIST STATEMENT
At times, I feel that I am reinterpreting, reevaluating, and reinventing the very things that I hold dear to me. My current body of work develops out of an interest in Hollywood films and celebrity culture as an art process. I consider myself not only a "consumer, watcher, recipient, and victim [of mass media and pop culture]. But also an agent of that culture: I am a chooser, interpreter, shaper, fellow player, participant, and storyteller" (Gerard Jones, Killing Monsters). When the work is reassembled, in whatever form it may take on, it becomes something that begins to transcend its origins and take on a new existence. For me, the method of this work is a digestive process. By turning these references into shards and fragments and subsequently reconstructing them, new work emerges. The finished artwork is often a byproduct of the process. I am also interested in the role that I play in this cultural landscape and ideas of hyperreality (the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy). It is the "sequence of events and actions through spaces, that is, a nomadic narrative whose path is articulated by the passage of the artist" (Miwon Kwon) that fuels my means of creation. It is in this "space" that I began to examine media culture as a process. In John A. Walker's book Art and Celebrity he states, they [celebrity magazines] are a vision of utopia, one may conclude, that provides readers with a refuge from harsh realities and the boring routines of everyday life. As a nomadic wanderer travels through his landscape looking for the next place to break, I am a traveler perpetually moving across a different landscape and hopefully finding some resting places along the way.
BIOGRAPHY
Scott Aigner is an artist who received his Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 2009. He currently lives and works as an adjunct professor in Normal, Illinois.