Shimon Attie
dal 20/7/2006 al 7/10/2006
Segnalato da
20/7/2006
Shimon Attie
Miami Art Museum, Miami
His new work includes Light Under Night, a three-screem video environment with full-surround sound, and a series of lightboxes, The Heroes of Telemark. The installation leads viewers into the in-between world of a subterranean plant in Norway, suggesting a poetic junction between nature, technology and culture.
New Work Gallery
Shimon Attie came to international attention in the 1990s with a series of installations collective titled Sites Unseen. In these works, Attie investigated the problematic relationship between the remembered and mediated past by projecting onto public sites archival images relating to their buried histories. As Attie has put it, he work sought “to give visual form to the personal and collective histories that are latent - but not visible - within our cities' architecture."
Attie’s New Work installation at MAM includes Light Under Night, a three-screem video environment with full-surround sound, and a series of lightboxes, The Heroes of Telemark. Light Under Night leads viewers into the in-between world of a subterranean hydroelectric plant in Rjukan, Norway, suggesting a poetic junction between nature, technology and culture. The video features a soundtrack by composer Bill Toles which combines natural and synthetic elements, including a pair of Telemark folksongs. The Heroes of Telemark, named after a Hollywood film inspired by Norwegian resistance fighters who sabotaged a Nazi lab in Rjukan during World War II, features portraits of some of the few laborers still employed by the plant after years of downsizing. By deliberately quoting the aesthetics of film and advertising photography, Attie challenges the construction of corporate identity and national mythology.
Shimon Attie was born in Los Angeles born in Los Angeles and currently lives in New York City. He spent much of the 1990s living and working in Berlin. His photographs and videos have been featured in solo exhibitions in the US and Europe. He has been the recipient of fellowships and awards. Most recently, he received the 2006 Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in Visual Art by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
This presentation is organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by Assistant Director for Programs/Senior Curator Peter Boswell.
Image: Still from Light Under Night 2005, 3-channel video installation with full-surround sound environment. Photograph courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
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