Opening Reception: Thursday, June 24, 6-8
PM
Zach
Feuer Gallery, Newman Popiashvili Gallery and Participant Inc are pleased
to
present solo exhibitions of work by the pioneering video artist
Michel
Auder. This three-venue survey exhibition will coincide with a
weeklong
screening of The Feature
(2008), directed by Michel
Auder
and Andrew Neel, at Anthology Film Archives in New York and a
screening
of Van's Last Performance
(1972) at Volume2 in Los Angeles.
Zach Feuer Gallery will exhibit two seminal works - The
Games:
Olympic Variations (1984) and Rooftops and Other Scenes
(1996)
- in addition to an installation of recent works by Auder, organized by
the
artist Kate Levant. Both The
Games and Rooftops
feature
techniques and interests that Auder revisits throughout his career. In
The
Games, Auder's aborted trip to the Seattle Olympics initiates
his
exploration into appropriation from television whereas in Rooftops,
Auder, using his camera as a voyeuristic tool, provides intimate portrait
of
his neighbors.
Five monitors
will
screen a series of recent vignettes at Newman Popiashvili Gallery.
These
superimposed videos mix images shot from mobile phones and underwater
devices,
along with footage from Auder's handheld camera. The videos will be
screened
one at a time with the images moving from one monitor to the next. A
recurring
image of a sleeping woman becomes the backdrop for more dreamlike images
of
wolves, rabbits, water, and children. Newman Popiashvili will also
exhibit
Auder's 2009 Heads of the Town,
a
slower-paced, intimate view of torsos in various states, at school,
smoking,
eating, and gazing off into the abyss.
A
cinematic
installation at Participant Inc will include feature-length works from the
late
60s onward, presented as a large-scale projection with seating and
sound,
encouraging visitors to spend time with a rotating schedule of durational
works
including Keeping Busy, A Coupla White Faggots Sitting
Around
Talking, Chasing the Dragon,
Cleopatra, and Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol. As well, an installation of
silent
video loops throughout the gallery will serve as index of the range of works
on
view.
Michel Auder was born
in
Soissons, France and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has been working
in
video since the inception of the Sony Portapak in 1969. Recent exhibitions and
screenings include the Museum of Modern
Art
in New York, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Centre Pompidou
in
Paris. His work was included in the 5th Berlin Biennial, the
Athens
Biennial, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland and solo exhibitions at Cubitt
in
London and at Krabbesholm in Skive, Denmark. He will have a solo
museum
exhibition at Lunds Konsthall in Lund, Sweden this September 2010.
