Firstdraft is a Sydney based artist directed space where the future of contemporary art emerges, through a program that is critical, ambitious and experimental. Hogan’s 2012, debut solo exhibition titled ‘Floor Talks’, presented the first series of his critically acclaimed ‘Floor Talk & Install’ Installation paintings. Drawing on the nature of online documentation of art installations and the ubiquitous image of contemporary art set against the institutional sheen of the white Cube, the paintings challenge notions of originality, simulacra, and representations of the real.
Playing with the methods of photorealistic oil painting, the series questions how our current engagements with the image of art via magazines and online art sites has pushed even non-retinal conceptual practices into a context of image staging over other medium specific concerns. The documentation of contemporary art is its medium-specificity.
