Cliff Evans
dal 8/11/2007 al 12/1/2008
Segnalato da
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
8/11/2007
Cliff Evans
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Empyrean. The artist treats images like found objects, mined from the vast reference library that is today's Internet. His exhibition is a digital polyptych with photomontage animation which recalls the form of 15th-century Northern European altar-pieces merged with contemporary advertising narratives.
Empyrean
Cliff Evans treats images like found objects, mined from the vast reference library that is today’s Internet. His exhibition Empyrean is a digital polyptych with photomontage animation which recalls the form of 15th-century Northern European altar-pieces merged with contemporary advertising narratives.
Scene after scene of Evans’s five-channel projection has deliberate order and disquieting disorder, creating a loose but provocative narrative around the subjects of power and population control, coded with interesting and often humorous subtexts. Empyrean’s themes are developed through an absurd juxtaposition of both benign traditions and disturbing pathologies: wellness tourism, missionary practice, militaristic domination. Evans’s extensive investigation into his subjects is enhanced by a trained eye and impressive skill using image detail and color.
Cliff Evans (b. 1977) was an Artist-in-Residence at the Gardner in 2006. He currently lives in New York and is a new faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Conversations with Cliff Evans:
Saturday, November 10, 1:30pm
Pieranna Cavalchini, Curator of Contemporary Art, Gardner Museum.
Thursday, November 15, 7:00pm
Mary Ellen Strom, artist and teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Thursday, November 29, 6:30pm
Barbara London, Associate Curator, Department of Media at Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Thursday, December 20, 7:00pm
George Fifield, Director, Boston Cyberarts Festival.
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