From: Pablo Marin (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 08:18:18 PDT
Fred Camper wrote:
"My tentative hypothesis is that the people who go
gaga over much of this stuff do so out of total and
abject ignorance of the history of film as an art. Not
knowing the language that's already established, they
think these poorly-photographed imitations of Lumiere
on video, or that Barney's sub-Fellini fantasy worlds
(and I don't even like Fellini), are somehow
interesting."
this month at Malba (in buenos aires) theres a program
of Warhol curated by Mary Lea Bandy and Klaus
Biesenbach of MoMA that consists of a bunch of his
screen tests and sleep, kiss, blow job, eat, empire
projected -on dvd- in a gallery on some kind of
canvas, imitating a sort "picture in motion". !!!
what is the point of doing something as stupid (and
unattractive) as this? this people thinks that this
digitalization-installation legitimates artists like
Warhol or Frampton?
what´s worst is that some peolple go and see 10
minutes of Empire or Sleep and thinks they´re capable
of judging it.
Pablo Marin
Buenos Aires.
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