Phil Collins
dal 10/3/2006 al 10/4/2006
Segnalato da
10/3/2006
Phil Collins
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
The exhibition also presents elements of Collins' ‘the return of the real’, a multi channel projection and photographic installation that investigates the promises and betrayals of reality television from the point of view of former participants. The project was structured as a forum for people who had never before met.
Solo show
The artist's first exhibition at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will feature ‘dunya dinlemiyor’ the most recent in the series of his much celebrated ‘the world won’t listen’ video installations. Shot in Istanbul in 2005 and first presented as part of the 9th International Istanbul Biennal this work documents the collaboration between the artist and the disaffected youths of the city who are seen performing Karaoke renditions of The Smiths album 'The World Won't Listen'. A tender, humorous, sometimes melancholic portrait of society, in the local and global sense, the work is a study on the mediation and strength of popular culture to which, despite its boundaries, we are all exposed. The first installment of the trilogy ‘el mundo no escuchara'’ was filmed in Bogota' in 2004, and the third and final party shall be completed this year in Jakarta.
The exhibition also presents elements of Collins' ‘the return of the real’, a multi channel projection and photographic installation that investigates the promises and betrayals of reality television from the point of view of former participants. Produced in Istanbul as well, the project was structured as a forum for people who had never before met but had in common their previous participation in reality TV and its profound effect on their lives.
Collins is short listed for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2006; the exhibition of work by artists nominated for the prize can be seen at The Photographer’s Gallery, London, February 17th - April 22nd. Recent solo exhibitions include Collins’ most comprehensive solo exhibition to date yeah… you, baby you, Milton Keynes Gallery (2005), (touring through 2005-06 to National Gallery of Arts, Tirana; firstsite, Colchester; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; and Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen); they shoot horses, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Phil Collins, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent (2006) and Assume Freedom, University Museum of Art, Long Beach (2006).
Opening: 11th March 2006, h. 6pm
Tanya Bondakar Gallery
521 West 21st Street - New York