From: owen (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 18:44:45 PDT
Seems art and fashion share the same window display designer, uh,
curator.
On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Fred Camper wrote:
> Pablo Marin wrote:
>
>
>> 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". !!!
>>
> ....
>
> Thanks for the report, Pablo. This is really depressing. Warhol's
> films, in my view, depend for their artistry on being seen
> projected well, in a darkened room, and in silence if they're
> silent. His imagery is as aesthetically developed as that of most
> great filmmakers. "Sleep" entered popular culture as some kind of
> neo-DaDa joke ("an eight hour film of a man sleeping," and was
> usually assumed, wrongly, to be a single camera angle with stops
> only for reloading), but it's a serious work of film art, filmed
> with real passion, at least in Warhol's peculiar sense of
> "passion." (My review: http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/
> 2000/0400/000428_1.html )
>
> There's a common view in the art world of Warhol as some kind of
> conceptual artist whose works' significance is simply that he did
> them. I think that's dead wrong. He really cared about his imagery
> in painting and film both, and the way his films' images develop in
> time is great.
>
> Video installation art may be a separate thing, as Stephen says,
> but film art is increasingly being exhibited the same way, which is
> to say, the wrong way.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
>
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