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| This exhibition marks the world premiere of Joshua Mosley’s new multi-media animated video Commute, 2003. Commute is a hero’s journey through the moon in which the main character, a clay replica of the artist, wanders astray into a hole in search of “equilibrium”. The animation digitally incorporates stop-motion clay figures and rapidly cycling charcoal drawings. This effect creates animated backdrops that simultaneously integrate and isolate Mosley’s characters in their relationships with their worlds. | |||||
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Gary Hill’s Twofold (Goats and Sheep), 1995 / 2001 – 02 combines two simultaneous views of a person signing from a text written and spoken by the artist. This text represents one possible version derived from a total of 420 phrases that could have been accessed at random by the viewers’ footsteps in Hill’s 1995 installation Withershins. The text “…The left hand…knows…that the right hand…knows…what the right hand…is doing?” refers to the dichotomy of the right and the left hand, a concern that has informed many of Hill’s installations. |
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On view in the main gallery is Rodney Graham’s new large-scale photo diptych Fantasia for Four Hands, 2002. With this work Graham furthers his interest in multiple identities and role-playing. Drawing inspiration from such varied subjects as a 1961 Dutch comedy album cover, Victor Borge and Yves Klein, Graham poses as altar egos in a double self-portrait. Also on view is Graham’s slide-projection/sound installation Aberdeen, 2000. A “low-tech, out of synch music video,” Aberdeen combines music and spoken word with 80 35mm slide photographs taken during Graham’s pilgrimage to the hometown of late Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain. |
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| Joshua Mosley is an Assistant Professor of Animation and Digital Media in the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. His work will be included in exhibitions this year at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gary Hill has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the prestigious Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1995 and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant in 1998. A European touring exhibition of Rodney Graham’s work, organized by the Whitechapel Gallery, London opens next month at K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and a North American touring exhibition will be held in 2004-2005 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. | |||||
| The reception is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10:00 to 5:30 and Saturday, 11:00 to 5:30. If you would like more information, please contact Emily Letourneau at 312.455.0100. | |||||
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