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Laurent Grasso
L’eclipse
2006
Duration: 10:24 min
Edition: 1/5 + 2 AP
Archival: DVD
Exhibition copy: mp4 digital file
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L’eclipse, 2006 offers a studious meditation on the supernatural visual phenomenon created by a total solar eclipse occurring at sunset. L’eclipse shows the changing imagery, colors, and shapes produced by the advancement of the moon’s shadow in front of the larger, setting sun. Over the ten minutes and 24 seconds of the film, the yellow sun slowly is slowly engulfed by the red shadow of the moon – also the color of the sky. To create this video, Grasso used advanced film technology to stage a pseudo-eclipse occurring at the same time as a sunset – a supernatural phenomenon that would not take place in real life. In talking about L’eclipse, Grasso said, “I decided to make my own false miracle, mixing a sunset and an eclipse to make something very rare, and a little bit supernatural.” This play on perception is a hallmark of Grasso’s practice and ties this work into his oeuvre.
Petra Cortright
Petra Cortright (b. 1986, California) is one of the most interesting young video and multimedia artists working today. Known as a “post-Internet” artist, Cortright makes films, digital paintings, and more using the Internet and digital files as both her source material and part of her artwork’s end result. The core of her practice concerns itself with the utilization, creation, and distribution of digital files using widely available software. Cortright’s aesthetic is equally digital in essence and intensely layered as if made of more tactile media, although her digital paintings are printed on variety of materials including aluminum, linen, rag paper, and acrylic. “Working in a laborious but intuitive multi-faceted process, Cortright mines the Internet for images, patterns, marks, and color palettes to construct a new visual language.”A timely artist for contemporary times when so much consumption occurs digitally, Cortright is a true innovator in image-making.
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“We are in a weird time, where everyone thinks everything has to make some kind of a commentary, and not to say that work isn’t important, but I am okay with making something that is just an escape.”*
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Women’s History Month
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Often overlooked by the collectors and museums, women artists for over the past 50 years have embraced some of the most innovative new technologies into their practices. We celebrate these pioneering artists and invite you to learn more about them.
Meriem Bennani
Guided Tour of a Spill
March 6 - May 1, 2021
2245 E Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90021
Bennani first Los Angeles exhibition playfully blends humor and critique, weaving an expanded allegory for how media circulates through channels of digital and geopolitical power, both online and in the real spaces we inhabit. Multi-channel video installation
CORY ARCANGEL
Century 21
Though April 17, 2021
Greene Naftali
508 W 26th Street
New York, NY Ground Floor
Arcangel's work reflects on the breakneck pace of technological and cultural obsolescence, and the fleeting nature of what he calls "the 'image world' that both consumes us and fits so snugly into the palm of our hands.
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