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흥미로운건 미술계에 부는 film making의 강세!
Travis Jeppesen은 다음 세 사람의 작업들을 베스트로 꼽았다.
James Benning, Keren Cytter, Karla Black
Keren Cytter, Four Seasons, 2009, still from a color video, 12 minutes.
For his performance at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, James Benning, California’s reigning auteur of landscape cinema, used his HD camera to rephotograph and reframe all the portraits of his friends and family depicted in his seminal 1991 road-trip film North on Evers, then slowed them down and projected them onto the large screen of the Arsenale Cinema. Benning then read aloud the original diaristic text that had appeared, in handwritten scrawl, across the bottom of the screen in the original film. The overall effect could easily have been one of weepy-eyed nostalgia, had it not been for the expert hands of an artist whose sustained dialogue with his own work continues to intrigue a loyal audience of followers while eradicating the boundaries between his own art, politics, and private life.
In terms of museum shows this summer, Stockholm was the place to be, with the stellar traveling Ed Ruscha painting retrospective occupying the ground floor of the Moderna Museet, and Keren Cytter down in the basement. If anyone had had any doubts about Cytter’s genius, it took only this labyrinthine “best-of” maze of her films, forming a precarious echo chamber, to bring us round to her humorous existentialism and knack for the multitudinous absurdities inherent in quotidian banter.
Despite my aversion to superlatives, Karla Black’s current outing at Capitain Petzel in Berlin suggests that she is the most interesting sculptor of her generation. Her sensitivity to the tactility of “soft” materials such as cellophane, paint powder, and sugar paper is perhaps rivaled only by her sense of rhythm; both are equal collaborators in this remarkable symphony of forms that gives me great hope for 2011, when Black will take on the Scottish pavilion in Venice.
Travis Jeppesen is a Berlin-based writer whose latest book, Dicklung & Others (BLATT Books, 2009), is a collection of poetry.
