“Slide Slide Slide” Exhibition
Microscope Gallery
This event has ended.
The exhibit assumes as its inspirational starting point the works and words of Italian artist Bruno Munari who in the early 1950s was actively and extensively realizing the new possibilities of the slide as an art object and exhibiting his works including at the Museum of Modern Art in 1954.
Slide Slide Slide features slide installations by eight contemporary artists working with and expanding the notion of the art of the transparent slide including single and double projections, multi-projector/multi-slide, hand-painted and hand-drawn, gelled and mirrored, magic lantern, carousel and light box with subjects ranging from gender politics to abstraction to colored light: Lary 7, Bradley Eros, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder, Barbara Hammer, Jeanne Liotta, Luther Price, Joel Schlemowitz, and Michael Snow. While some of Munari’s forward thinking concepts are now realized in current digital mediums and technologies – such as the ability to “carry an entire exhibition in your pocket” - the works on exhibit result from and expand upon possibilities arising solely from the meeting of the transparent slide with projected light.
Each of the artists in Slide Slide Slide are recognized for their work with multiple mediums including celluloid film and digital video. But it is the specific nature of the slide itself the motivation behind all the works on view – one that is not photography, not film, not painting, not drawing, yet able to incorporate elements of each as well as those inherent to its own technology. Works include Michael Snow’s single carousel “Slidelength” (1969-1971); Luther Price’s “Light Fractures” (2013) consisting of 80 handmade slides; and premieres of: Barbara Hammer’s “Identity Redux” based on her 1995 film “Tender Fictions”; Bradley Eros’ “Silver <> Mirror {27 + 27 + 27 = 81}” with projection on silvered mirror; Joel Schlemowitz’s 4-projector installation “A Gallery of Ektagraphic Elegies”; Jeanne Liotta’s “Tempr II”, single slide with ink on exposed 120 film negative projection; Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder’s composition of monochrome slides on light box “Color Transparency”; and Lary 7′s lantern double glass slide projection “Social Club”.
Microscope is also pleased to be able to include videos of several of Munari’s multi-focal single slide works projecting at various focus points, the sole manner in which this series by the artist who died in 1998, at the age of 91, can be seen in action today. Slide Slide Slide incorporates a series of live expanded slide show or other slide-related screenings that will take place over the course of the exhibition with works by many of the artists on view as well by Gill Arno, Kenneth Zoran Curwood, Ken Jacobs, George Maciunas (presented by Jonas Mekas), Raha Raissnia, Alexia Welch among others, the details of which will be announced separately.
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Schedule
from September 05, 2014 to October 06, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-05 from 18:00 to 21:00