Jeremy Blake
dal 29/10/2003 al 20/12/2003
Segnalato da
29/10/2003
Jeremy Blake
Feigen Contemporary, New York
'Autumn Almanac', the Gallery's third solo show of artwork by Jeremy Blake. The exhibition will include the premiere of a new DVD projection titled 'Reading Ossie Clark', a new C-print, and thirty-two works on canvas, marking Blake's recent return to studio painting.
AUTUMN ALMANAC
Feigen Contemporary is pleased to announce 'Autumn Almanac', the Gallery's
third solo show of artwork by Jeremy Blake. The exhibition will include the
premiere of a new DVD projection titled 'Reading Ossie Clark', a new C-print,
and thirty-two works on canvas, marking Blake's recent return to studio
painting.
In the Front Gallery will be an installation of a large digitally rendered
c-print across from a series of small oil paintings, nostalgically titled
"Autumn Almanac" after the 1967 Kinks song written by Ray Davies as he
strolled through his London neighborhood. Punctuated by both figurative and
non-objective imagery of personal references to popular culture, the
horizontal sequence of intimate yet vibrant paintings implies an abstract
narrative structure similar to the accompanying DVD projected in the adjacent
gallery.
Blake's most recent DVD, "Reading Ossie Clark", collages original film,
drawing and still photography with both painted and digital elements in a
9-minute continuous loop narrated by art world icon Clarissa Dalrymple. In
memory of Swinging London's premier fashion designer, Ossie Clark, the DVD
follows the arc of his career from its influential prime in the late 60's and
early 70's, when he outfitted and enchanted celebrities and socialites around
the world, to its grim conclusion in 1996.
The script for the artwork is a prose poem inspired by various fragments of
Ossie Clark's recently published diaries. Clark's groundbreaking work in
fashion may be familiar, but Blake found his diaries to be fascinating and
stunning artifacts as well. For the DVD, Blake created hand-painted and
digitally animated forms inspired by Clark's colorful, stream-of-consciousness
entries. Here the name-dropping and glamour-gossip integral to Clark's musings
mingle with blossoming shapes that morph according to the tone and tempo of
Dalrymple's voice. Moving abstractions slowly resolve to actual filmed footage
as well as floral and geometric motifs based on the patterns of Ossie Clark's
dresses. With this piece Blake pays homage to Clark's extraordinary artistic
talent, and in the process paints a poetic, psychological portrait.
Jeremy Blake currently has a solo exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. He is represented in the collections of several
museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Preview Reception, Thursday, October 30, 6:00-8:00 pm
Feigen Contemporary
535 West 20th Street
New York