FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Michael Guidetti
Bell, Book, and
Candle
September 10 – October 9, 2010
Opening
Friday, September 10th,
6-9pm
The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to
announce an exhibit by San Francisco-based artist, Michael Guidetti, titled
Bell, Book, and Candle. This will be his second solo exhibit with
the
gallery.
Guidetti continues to explore the
relationship between virtual and physical elements by expanding his field to
architectural space. Painting the entire gallery a uniform bright green,
Guidetti employs an unfixed/in-flux context created by the production
environment of chroma-key (green-screen) video compositing technology. Rather
than providing a blank neutral space it serves only as a temporary stand-in,
demanding to be replaced. The viewer is confronted with this provisional
setting in a state of waiting, without a final composite image. Markers for
motion tracking and spatial reference placed around the space further enforce
the absence of
context.
Within the environment an array of
equipment actively measures the physical, visual, and acoustic properties of
the space. Reminiscent of tools used for ghost hunting, the instruments
attempt to describe something non-visible/physical and provide some
concreteness to something abstract. A video monitor among the equipment
displaying computer generated 3D renderings of the exhibition shown in
various perspectives and states, further complicates the ability to reach a
complete, relative conception of the
space.
Michael Guidetti received his BFA from the
California College of the Arts, San
Francisco.
For more information please contact Eric
Renehan Jones or Ava Jancar at info@jancarjones.com or visit www.jancarjones.com. Gallery hours: Thursday –
Saturday, noon – 6pm and by
appointment.
