THIS IS NO FANTASY + dianne tanzer gallery is thrilled to present Justin Hinder’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Hinder has created a suite of new paintings, grande finale, which depict scenarios that pivot around the ending of one thing and the beginning of another.
This series of paintings contemplate the experience of one’s life path and ultimate death which is a recurring theme in Hinder’s practice. In grande finale Hinder portrays cinematic motifs to consider the concept of the fluidity of life and human experience to capture and celebrate various milestones of collective experiences in life.
Hinder has interspersed snapshots of disparate, idiosyncratic decisions and choices throughout the narratives depicted in grande finale to create a series of works that are both linked and individual in their narrative structure. The title grande finale is related to Hinder’s project Telltale for Next Wave Emerging Curator Program 2016 in which the ctional hotel within Hinder’s literary narrative is the Telltale Grande. Hinder also considers the word grande within the context of contemporary culture, taking cue from the coffee chain Starbucks naming a medium size coffee a grande – the grande in the middle, neither the largest or the smallest. When paired with finale, the pounced letter ‘e’ on the end of each word links these two words in a rhythmic sequence, leading the audience to believe, through his comical alliteration, that this is a milestone event, but not necessarily the end.
grande finale captures Hinder’s ability to playfully riff on contemporary culture whilst weaving it poignantly into his own visual language.
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