Egan Frantz and Original Contemporary Art

Egan Frantz is a young American artist that creates series of work of various types, going from sculptures of baguette and arrows to a gouache painting of an elephant's tail.

Frantz's art takes form by assembling pre-existent objects, resulting in works that are minimal but have a powerful impact on their viewers. What might appear like a random combination is actually a well planned choice of matching materials, making them accurate and detailed creations. Every piece of work is connected to the other, even if not so visible at a first look.
In regards to the connection between words and objects, Franz stated, "It's a spectrum issue, or an issue of intensity. On the one hand, I identify as Freudian, so I reject the belief that reality can be captured in language. But I'm also interested in object-oriented philosophy: Heidegger's doctrine of the broken tool. There are people who work with this much more explicitly, the so-called "speculative realists," for instance. Quentin Meillassoux coined the term "correlationist," which refers to all philosophy after Kant--including Kant--which basically says, everything is in relation to thinking. My feeling is: if you look at a chair, you don't exhaust a chair any more than if you sit in a chair.

I had a work that dealt with that pretty explicitly, but that's since changed--I'm working on it now to improve that work--but what was carved into the work was, "Neither fish nor fowl, nor fish and fowl at once." This is an impossible thing to imagine, but that's the point. What we have to reason with is that what we call the impossible is not impossible. The impossible happens every day. No probabilistic theory can deal with that.

But this isn't what I do. These are my interests. I read like anybody else. Ultimately, I'm making artworks in the field of fine arts."