New York artist Mark McCoy works at the intersection of art and music. Trained at the School of Visual Arts, in addition to his artistic work he also performs as a singer and guitarist in various punk, rock and black metal bands, runs a label, designs record covers and booklets and publishes photo magazines in small editions.

The Düsseldorf label Slowboy Records/Galerie Slowboy presents new drawing works by Mark McCoy in combination with a record produced especially for the exhibition as well as a series of screen prints in the Weltkunstzimmer. The soundtrack to the exhibition DEVOURING GHOST will be released as an individually designed double vinyl in a limited edition and will be presented on the opening evening, Friday 17 April 2015.

Mark McCoy's work comprises architectural ink drawings that address the ephemerality and mutability of a technically constructed world. Symbols of decay and mortality reflect the ambivalent, unconscious desire not to exist. The works address concepts of perception and memory and filter personal experiences that are reorganised and redefined.

The exhibition in the Weltkunstzimmer shows, among other things, a new, specially made group of nine large-format, extremely detailed ink drawings by Mark McCoy, which refer to the tarot game. Different interpretations and meanings of the cards, such as ruin and catastrophe, the ego shaping the perception of reality and the instability of belief structures in society, shine through. McCoy uses the tarot towers as a central motif, symbolising both silent endurance and transience through collapse.

http://www.markmccoyart.com/

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The exhibition is complemented by further drawing positions by Thomas Ruch (Düsseldorf/Basel), Veronika Schumacher (Berlin) as well as collaborative works by the Havekost class of 2014 (Kunstakademie Düsseldorf).

Veronika Schumacher's pictorial cosmos is permeated by a seemingly inexhaustible repertoire with which she creates wallpaper or detailed drawings. Her collection of materials includes images of pop as well as those from cheap tabloids, comics or art books. There are no fears of contact, everything is allowed. Since 2003, the Berlin-based artist has been performing regularly as DJ Vicious V.
Thomas Ruch's figurative wall piece for the exhibition is created on site at high speed with spray paint. The aim is to consciously test action and reaction. His work seeks the tension between the self-expressing tool (can pressure container) and the calculable form and contour of a thinking hand.
The Havekost class is represented with two works that dispense with thematic guidelines and individual authorship and were condensed over a longer working process into a course of complementary, erasing and revised pictorial inventions.

www.veronika-schumacher.de
http://vicious-vero.tumblr.com
www.veronika-schumacher.de/vronis-blog1

Framework programme

17 April 2015, 7 pm / Opening with plate presentation

The soundtrack to the exhibition DEVOURING GHOST will be released as an individually designed double vinyl in a limited edition.

16 May 2015, 7 pm / Finissage with DJ set

Sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf.