I Am The Best

Richie Culver

Info: Richie Culver presents his solo exhibition I Am The Best at Ruttkowski;68 Düsseldorf. To the artist and non-artist alike, the measure of our work is defined by that which it lacks. This convergence between the non-artist and artist, a shared loss that to one is existentially loathsome and the other is the essence of its method, makes Richie Culver’s latest series of paintings some of the most intimate and provocative work he has produced. Richie’s work has always been conscious of self – a mutualism that has been solemnly diaristic at times, drastically amplifying, or even both. His canvases performed an internal monologue that was wise to it’s self, proudly explicating insecurities and foibles with gratuitous conviction. It was the ego under the influence of the death drive, vacating its conscientiousness with every utterance. What is striking about this new passage, therefore, is the emergence of a self-consciousness that approaches sincerity.