BEN MALTZ GALLERY
MEDIA RELEASE
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909. Images available.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY, 2005
June 22 – July 30, 2005
Standards of Reality: Five Artists from Barcelona
Martí Anson, Carles Congost, Pep Duran, Mabel Palacín, Tere Recarens
A video lounge selected by Ferran Barenblit, Director, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
In this Los Angeles debut exhibition, the curator reunites the video work of five artists from Barcelona who have exhibited at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona (CASM) as part of the institution’s mission to support new work by local and international artists. Mr. Barenblit’s selection reflects on three primary themes he consistently finds in the work of so many contemporary artists: the continuous critique of reality and its underlying inherent contradictions; the power of the moving image in contemporary culture; and the role of the individual in a conflicted society.
Martí Anson
Walt and Travis, 2003 [22:33]
The characters in this road movie, produced during a residency at Ohio’s Wexner Center for the Arts, drive silently over hill and dale and never arrive at any one place. Anson often deals with issues related to time and expectation. He keeps the viewer frozen in anticipation by building the tension of an action without ever releasing it.
Carles Congost
Un Mystique determinado [A Certain Mystique], 2003 [17:20]
The central character of the video is a promising young footballer that falls under a strange enchantment and is compelled to behave like a Spanish video artist. Congost uses musical and visual elements from pop music and culture from the 70s and 80s to create his elaborate, humorous and fantastic fict
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BEN MALTZ GALLERY
MEDIA RELEASE
Media contact: Kathy MacPherson, galleryinfo@otis.edu, 310.665.6909. Images available.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MAY, 2005
June 22 – July 30, 2005
Standards of Reality: Five Artists from Barcelona
Martí Anson, Carles Congost, Pep Duran, Mabel Palacín, Tere Recarens
A video lounge selected by Ferran Barenblit, Director, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
In this Los Angeles debut exhibition, the curator reunites the video work of five artists from Barcelona who have exhibited at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica in Barcelona (CASM) as part of the institution’s mission to support new work by local and international artists. Mr. Barenblit’s selection reflects on three primary themes he consistently finds in the work of so many contemporary artists: the continuous critique of reality and its underlying inherent contradictions; the power of the moving image in contemporary culture; and the role of the individual in a conflicted society.
Martí Anson
Walt and Travis, 2003 [22:33]
The characters in this road movie, produced during a residency at Ohio’s Wexner Center for the Arts, drive silently over hill and dale and never arrive at any one place. Anson often deals with issues related to time and expectation. He keeps the viewer frozen in anticipation by building the tension of an action without ever releasing it.
Carles Congost
Un Mystique determinado [A Certain Mystique], 2003 [17:20]
The central character of the video is a promising young footballer that falls under a strange enchantment and is compelled to behave like a Spanish video artist. Congost uses musical and visual elements from pop music and culture from the 70s and 80s to create his elaborate, humorous and fantastic fict
(more)
