Mike Womack "High Grade Empty"
ZieherSmith
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In his second exhibition at ZieherSmith, Mike Womack continues to use simple materials to stimulate fantastic optical responses. He sculpts and draws on mirrors with illumination from flashlights, candles, and strobes. Referring to past television technologies, Womack raises issues of the electronic age we live in and how little most of us understand it. Two of the three hand-made works are kinetic, including Metronome, which debuted at the NADA Art Fair in Miami.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is Metronome, a mind-boggling installation that revisits the tragedy of the Hindenburg. The piece functions as a unique, large scale mechanical television that creates moving imagery using a series of spiraling mirrors and a single light source. Uniting obsolete technology with gripping footage of one of the world’s first recorded disasters, Womack reminds us of television’s origins and thus of our technology driven, media focused world. Like subsequent televised tragedies, including 9/11, the event sparked numerous conspiracy theories and suspicions. Today, this imagery maintains its potency despite the prevalence of violence from TV and internet news coverage, as well as entertainment sources.
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Schedule
from February 12, 2009 to March 14, 2009