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INTERNET TEXT Nathan Hylden (born 1978, lives in Los Angeles) deals conceptually with the conditions and effects of painting in his works. While the medium of painting is usually associated with the idea of uniqueness, Hylden's approach is characterized by seriality based on mechanical repetition and efficiency in the selection of materials: unmixed metallic paints from a standard range, fluorescent spray paint, stencils, untreated canvases. The individual work is closely related to the series or an entire group of works created over a long period of time. Each is an autonomous work and at the same time part of a broader working process. The result is images that, on the one hand, leave no doubt that they are meant to be paintings. On the other hand, however, these works reveal that their status as paintings is possibly their only remaining substantive concern.