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Art News:
Untitled #65
(Cartwheel), 2009
digital silver gelatin print, edition of 3 +1 AP
28 x 33.5
inches
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Josh
Azzarella
Works:
2004-2011
Opening
Reception:
Saturday, April 9, 2011, 6-8pm
On View:
April 9 – May 14, 2011
For his sophomore solo show with the gallery, Azzarella has selected a survey
of pivotal works from his repertoire as well as an ambitious new
video
Mark Moore
Gallery
5790 Washington
Blvd
Culver City, CA
90232
Telephone 310 453
3031
Fax 310 453
3831
info@markmooregallery.com
www.markmooregallery.com
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Mark Moore
Gallery is thrilled to present a career-to-date survey of video and photographic
works by Josh
Azzarella. Including a combination of manipulated photos, video and
projection, Works:
2004-2011 explores Azzarella's developments in practice, technique and
content – and culminates with the debut of his seminal Untitled #105
(SFDF) (2011) multi-channel video installation.
The recipient of the 2006 Emerging Artist Award from the Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum (CT), Azzarella has been heralded for his scrutiny of popular
historiography. Oftentimes appropriating images from current and archival news
media, he painstakingly modifies infamous moments in time as a demonstration of
individual perception of communal events. By engineering alternative renditions
of famed events, Azzarella simultaneously disputes the authenticity of
chronicling and denotes the gravity of context in the authorship of memory.
While the earlier works featured in the exhibition rely heavily on headline
imagery, recent works evince a shift towards pop culture and commercial
iconography. Investigating topical subjects from the Vietnam War to Michael
Jackson's "Thriller" music video, Azzarella assesses our detachment from the
globally momentous and fixation on the sensational. The exhibition also features
the premiere of Untitled #105 (SFDF) (2011), Azzarella's first
three-channel video work. A major project that required over two years of
production time, Untitled #105 (SFDF) is comprised of three seamlessly
looped video channels, each with 5.1 surround sound that create a grand 15.3
surround sound experience. While maintaining his practice of arrogation,
Azzarella assumes a position behind the camera for the first time. Isolating
three pivotal moments of anticipation from 1933's King Kong, the artist
suspends the iconic scenes and merges them with newly captured footage. Through
this fusion, Azzarella displaces our experience of filmic events, and challenges
our grasp of legendary eminence.
Josh Azzarella (b. 1978, Ohio) received his MFA from the Mason Gross School of
the Arts, Rutgers State University (NJ). He has had solo exhibitions in Seattle,
Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, among others, as well as inclusion in shows
at the Akademie der Kunste (Berlin), Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
(IN) and Western Bridge (WA). His work can be found in the public collections of
JP Morgan Chase (NY), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), Western Bridge
(WA) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA). Azzarella is also the
recipient of the 2003 Fassbender Award for Excellence in Photography. He is also
represented by DCKT Contemporary in New York City, where he lives and works.
This is Azzarella's second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Azzarella is also the fifth featured artist of the gallery's in-house
publication series, Mark Moore Gallery : Statements. To order a hard copy
of the mini-retrospective catalogue - which features an interview, press
excerpts and overviews of various bodies of work - please email our publications department.
Books are $20 each (plus shipping). For a complimentary download of the
e-catalogue version, click here.
For more information on the artist, opening event or additional press materials,
please visit www.markmooregallery.com , or
contact Catlin Moore,
Director.
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