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| Still from Doll Clothes, 1975 |
Check out my new essay on the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MoMA up over on Escape Into Life. The big question: Do you find the path not taken in her work as tantalizing as I do?
Category Archives: video
Are we having fun yet?
So far the New Year has brought change, but not necessarily of the pleasant sort. And change is always stressful.
Which is why, for your viewing pleasure, I bring you a little something to make you appreciate life. Girl Walk // All Day is a full length, music video of a film charting three dancers encountering New York City.
Girl Walk // All Day: Chapter 2 from Girl Walk // All Day on Vimeo.
Released in clips, there are 11 available on the website with the 12th and final clip coming today. I’m having fun now.
Still Life & Motion at DCKT Contemporary
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| Bouquet, Everest Hall, 2011 |
Still Life and Motion: Everest Hall and Sean Capone opened Thursday night on the LES DCKT Contemporary gallery, and alltogether made for a nice, small show that speaks to a very contemporary way of handling the age-old still life genre. Everest Hall provides the still lifes of the exhibition’s title, with roses on rather geometric backgrounds that seem paper-thin, fragile, and false. Sean Capone provides the motion, showing roses and other flowers exploding and fading out like a kaleidoscope setting for a flat screen. The works complimented each other nicely, but Hall’s work seemed the weaker part of the show.
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| Still from Sub Rosa (What We Do Is Secret), Sean Capone, 2009 |
Capone’s two video installations were fascinated to watch as they played on an endless loop. I was also very intrigued by the sales premise behind them. Literally a few minutes after complaining to a friend about how I can’t afford any of the artwork I see, I looked at the price list and saw the videos being sold as a file on a USB drive for $125, and that they artist had limited the editions to 100. The artist created his own principle of scarcity that was really interesting, and I could certainly dig projecting those patterns onto my living room wall 24/7. I was also really impressed and interested by the site-specific installations he had created in the past. In fact, they are amazing: see here.
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| FloralWall (Skull & Void #3), Sean Capone, 2010 |