Clifton Childree, Fuck that Chicken from Popeyes, 2011, © the artists, Courtesy Galerie Ernst Hilger
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Opening in presence of the artist: Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 7 pm, Kunsthalle Wien project space
Clifton Childree is an analogous artist in a digital word who will always prefer a hand crank and the juddering and flickering of an old black-and-white slapstick movie to todays high-definition resolution. Fascinated with the tawdry glitter and honky-tonk of cheap illusory worlds, he draws his inspiration from circuses, vaudevilles, side shows, and midnight movie theaters. While reproducing the silent movie, Clifton Childrees aesthetics provides the basis for a handicraft art that transforms rotting wood, decaying furniture, and decomposing textiles into magic locations. Each of his multimedia installations is a fantastic gesamtkunstwerk that turns into a humorous theater of the grotesque and unlimited eccentricity.
Clifton Childree, was born in Birmingham/Alabama in 1971. He lives and works in Miami.
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