Tom Sachs: Rocket Man to Renaissance Man Andrew Russeth describing the artist uncorking three concurrent shows in Seoul
(...) Sachs, 55, was taking a break from putting the finishing touches on his show “Tom Sachs Space Program: Indoctrination” at Art Sonje Center, one of three solo exhibitions he was readying in the South Korean capital. (...)
At Art Sonje, there are spacesuits, models of spacecraft, and ingeniously jury-rigged dioramas that use cameras, monitors, and the odd fog machine to simulate rocket launches and segments of the trips that his group has made throughout the solar system (in earthbound performances). (...)
Recently, he has been embracing NFTs with gusto, inviting collectors to conceive three-part digital rockets with each component bearing the insignia of a brand like Budweiser, Tiffany or Campbell’s Soup. They’re sendups of how identities are formed, or aspired to, via consumerism, perhaps. (...)
After some 16 rocket launch events in the last year, Sachs is ending them on July 24 at midnight. (...) Paintings of his Pop rockets are on view through Aug. 20 at the gallerist Thaddaeus Ropac’s Seoul branch. (...)
