Laurent Champoussin, UNCUT LOOPS
UNCUT LOOPS, brilliant looped video portraits by Laurent Champoussin. Be sure to scroll sideways at the site.
Martijn Hendriks, 12 Glowing Men
Untitled (12 Glowing Men), 2008. Still from a single channel video DVD, projection and website. Color and black and white, sound. 4 min 10 sec loop.
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Dutch artist Martijn Hendriks has a Web site dedicated to a 4 min excerpt of “12 Angry Men” in which rainbows inexplicably appear on the actor’s skin.
In his video installation “Untitled (12 Glowing Men)” Dutch artist, Martijn Hendriks takes the climactic jury-room scene from 1957′s “12 Angry Men” and haloes the deliberators with a prismatic, heaven-like glow. To me, it’s like a physical manifestation of their emotion and almost as if nature itself is intervening. The light itself spreads and morphs onto the men as each turns his back on the one man you wants to condemn the accused. There’s an intrinsic sanctimony involved in the trial-by-jury system, as if perhaps these men exalt themselves through the act of determining the fate of another. Notice how by the end of the scene, the only man devoid of the ethereal light is the one who’s been shunned by all the others.
Aside from that, it’s stunningly beautiful. Watch. (Jeremy Elder, Shape+Colour, Sept. 08)
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Lucas Michael, U don’t bring me flowers
I discovered this brilliant video piece, U don’t bring me flowers, (2006), by Los Angeles based artist Lucas Michael a few days ago. At once both wry and slightly macabre, it has a Candice Breitz edge to it – yet more fluid and uplifting. It really is worth clicking the link below to view.
In San Francisco, Silverman Gallery presents After Hours, an exhibition of new work by Lucas Michael on view from June 11 – July 17, 2010
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Giulio Frigo
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Giulio Frigo, PRESENTATORI DI PRESENZA, 2009
35mm slide projection (RAI archive) over a video projection (4 platonic solids)
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Tour de Force at SFMOMA
Candice Breitz, Mother (composite), 2005; six-channel video installation with sound
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Yesterday’s visit to SFMoMA was particularly rewarding. The Museum seemed much larger this time, perhaps it was because all of the galleries were open. The above video ‘Mother’ by Candice Breitz was incredible. For this video piece, Breitz edited film performances by Faye Dunaway, Diane Keaton, Shirley MacLaine, Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, and Meryl Streep to create a revealing composite of the Hollywood cliché of the difficult mother. The video attached presents the work in a different format than was experienced yesterday. At the SFMoMA Breitz’s video monitors were arranged in a single slightly concave row. Nor is it the full length version, the clip above stops rather abruptly, before Shirley McLaine and Fay Dunaway’s performance comes into full stride.
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A powerful achievement that must have employed months of editing. Really quite intense and enjoyable stuff. Go to Candice Breitz, click on ‘work’, then ‘video’ to watch the the full length video in a better resolution and sound.
Video Art, Josh Azzarella
Untitled #100 (Fantasia) (2009) – Josh Azzarella
Michael Jackson’s iconic music video for “Thriller” stripped entirely of its dancers and music, instead the artist presents an emptied set, accompanied by an ambient soundtrack.
Matthew Williamson by Johan Renck
Bizarre H&M commercial with a few art moments via Johan Renck for Matthew Williamson.
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