We've All Got Issues: Video Art from the APT Collection
MutualArt.com, 05/29/2014 - 06/12/2014
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We’ve All Got Issues brings together a selection of diverse voices from the APT Collection. While video is capable of depicting general artistic devices such as abstraction (Mark Titchner’s UR Text 2), beauty (Kevin Cooley’s Nederland) poetry (Ezra Johnson’s The Time of Tall Statues) and humor (David Shrigley’s The Door), the medium is often used as a soap box to broadcast issues loud and far. While specific in origins that are often personal to the artist, these issues have the ability to transcend the local, as they appeal to our commonalities, addressing universal concerns such as family (Keren Cytter’sFamily), missing persons (Suzanne Treister’s Vesna), the military (Elisabetta Benassi’s Noon) and being gay (Kalup Linzy’s The Pursuit of Gay (Happyness)). While the stories told here are multifarious in their approach, content and style, the experiences depicted resonate with our own, forging connections across space, time and culture.
Image featured: Still from the video From Stone to Stone 2009 by Adriana Garcia Galán
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We’ve All Got Issues brings together a selection of diverse voices from the APT Collection. While video is capable of depicting general artistic devices such as abstraction (Mark Titchner’s UR Text 2), beauty (Kevin Cooley’s Nederland) poetry (Ezra Johnson’s The Time of Tall Statues) and humor (David Shrigley’s The Door), the medium is often used as a soap box to broadcast issues loud and far. While specific in origins that are often personal to the artist, these issues have the ability to transcend the local, as they appeal to our commonalities, addressing universal concerns such as family (Keren Cytter’sFamily), missing persons (Suzanne Treister’s Vesna), the military (Elisabetta Benassi’s Noon) and being gay (Kalup Linzy’s The Pursuit of Gay (Happyness)). While the stories told here are multifarious in their approach, content and style, the experiences depicted resonate with our own, forging connections across space, time and culture.
Image featured: Still from the video From Stone to Stone 2009 by Adriana Garcia Galán
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