Ian Wolter

L'Ectoplasma di Delusione Del Sé

The Ectoplasm of Self Delusion

A kinetic work with 150kgs of vaseline: people find its slow evolution endlessly fascinating. It addresses many business leaders' mistaken belief that their success has been the result of just their own capability, while ignoring both their own advantages and other's disadvantages. They are the first among unequals.  Spouting hubris like Sir Alan Duncan (a UK MP) who condemned those without wealth as low achievers, some seek to augment and immortalise themselves by having their likenesses captured in bronze busts, thereby evoking Roman timelessness.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE ARTIST

The winner of the Arte Laguna Prize 2016 and the Global Sustainability Art Prize 2015. He creates kinetic sculpture, performances and films as a means to explore societal trends and possible futures. He uses a broad range of media and approaches and he enjoys collaborating, this keeps his practice exciting. He aims for his art to be accessible and to foster debate, to be easily argued over. He is fascinated by Jaques Rancière’s idea that the power of political art doesn’t lie in the tension between the art and its inherant politics, but in the tension between it being simultaneously art and non-art. Art may be infected with non-art and become both more powerful and less valuable. A graduate of Cambridge School of Art (Fine Art) 2015

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