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Guy Richards Smit
dal 24/10/2003 al 6/12/2003
212-9669043 FAX 917-2150057
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Peter Ryan


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Guy Richards Smit



 
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24/10/2003

Guy Richards Smit

Satellite, New York

A Message to My Audience. An amped up yet intimate installation of painting and video within a recreation of the bedroom of Maxi Geil!, the rockstar alter-ego of artist Guy Richards Smit. Coupling seemingly incongruent attributes-that of the ego-driven exhibitionist with an intimate and personal portrayal of his band Maxi Geil! & PlayColt-Smit dances a paradoxical line between parody and sincerity. Live Performance: Joe's Pub, Saturday, October 25. The exhibition runs November 1 - December 6, 2003.


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"A Message to My Audience"

Satellite is very pleased to present "A Message to My Audience" an amped up yet intimate installation of painting and video within a recreation of the bedroom of Maxi Geil!, the rockstar alter-ego of artist Guy Richards Smit. Coupling seemingly incongruent attributes-that of the ego-driven exhibitionist with an intimate and personal portrayal of his band Maxi Geil! & PlayColt-Smit dances a paradoxical line between parody and sincerity.

By making the bedroom of Maxi Geil the setting for this exhibition, Smit plumbs the depths of the cult of personality, reaching beyond the facade of fame, and exposing the inner, vulnerable side of his infamous Maxi Geil! persona. Within this very intimate setting, a place where we imagine sex and dreams unfolding, Smit reveals the inner life of rock stars, through sensuous yet quiet portraits of each of the band members. Not the glitzy, hyped images you would expect of members of a rock band, Smit presents sensitive depictions of each band member engaged in deeply personal, introspective moments.

In contrast to this, the full-on star quality of the Maxi Geil! & PlayColt phenomena is played out on the bedroom's TV set. A broadcast of the television music program "Countdown Video Klasse!x{201D}-beamed directly from from the upper reaches of Alpine Switzerland-hypes the band through video performances of live shows and a staged music video of the hit "Strange Sensation". Hosted by a Swiss, Deutsch-speaking version of Carson Daly, this pop television program confirms the expansive international influence of Maxi Geil! & PlayColt. In the hit video "Strange Sensation" even the classical art of ballet must reach out to Maxi Geil! & PlayColt in order to reinvent itself into a relevant contemporary art form.

Guy Richards Smit has previously exhibited his work in, among other venues, MOMA's MediaScope, La Bienal de Valencia, Havana Biennial, Palm Beach Istitute of Contemporary Art, Bass Museum of Art, Aeroplastics (Brussels), G-Module (Paris), and Roebling Hall.

Live Performance: Joe's Pub, Saturday, October 25, 9 PM, $12

Reception Saturday, November 1st, 6-9 PM

Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12-6 PM
November 1 - December 6, 2003

SATELLITE (a division of ROEBLINGHALL)
94 Prince Street
Manhattan NY

IN ARCHIVIO [4]
Moises Saman
dal 29/6/2004 al 4/9/2004

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