Alchemy of Comedy…Stupid

Edgar Arceneaux

Exposición: Mar 8 – May 7, 2006


Alchemy of Comedy. . .Stupid combina cine, fotos, y proyectos de imprimir para extrair conecciones entre la practica medieval y comedia contemporaneo.  ANALOGOUS a los transmutcioned de alcemia, bromas son invencioned en lo cual dos elementos chocan elementos mutuamente exclusivos- la narrativa y su equivalente, el remate/PUNCH LINE.  Como alquimia, bromas unlimanete descansan en CHANCE: el TIMING y contexto de entrega.

El proyecto se centraliza en una pelicula projectado a tamano LIFE-SIZE en las paredes de la galleria.  Direjido por Arceneaux, protagonisa el comediante David Alan Grier experimentando con la misma routina en tres localidades.  Como un sientifico quizas consideraria los Cuatro elementos basicos de aire, agua, fuego, y tierra, la produccion mescal proporciones de colores, musica, publico/audiencia y WORDPLAY.  Tonos bruscos y luminacion aparecen cyclicamente, bandas locales tocan en cada sitio, el publico/la audiencia esta variamente colapsado con interpretador, y la entrega cambia cada noche.  Las bromas encocan en el lado mas obsucro de la vida: miedos potenciales de cancer, la relacion estrnida/STRAINED de Grier con su padre, y la experiencia de su padre en silla de ruedas.

Objetos en la galleria expanden en el idea de tragedia, una nocion INCOHERENT de comedia con alchemia, que fue aplicada para prologar la vida y sanar infermedad.  En la pared, una foto trasferida de diez pies esta DEPICTED con lena/eMBRAS/EMBERS ardiendo en la silla.  Fuego y muerte senalan/POINT BACK a la alquimia, pero Grier y su “padre” comico, Richard Pryor, quien famosamente se quemo, paso tiempo en una silla de ruidas, y fallecio de un ataque al corazon en 2005.

Pryor estsa de Nuevo refrenciado en una serie de doce fotografias de llamas.  Colectivamente titulado Do you remember that joke? When you hold up a match and you go like this and say, “What’s this?” “Richard Pryor running down the street.”, la obra REFERENCES una broma una vez famosa que implico agitar un cerillo prendido.

Alchemy of Comedy. . . .Stupid  demonstra que qualidades compartidas pueden cruzar disiplinas y destabilizar nociones conocidas de los dos, comedia y alquimia.  Ultimamente, propone la coherencia expansiva de logica no linear y que, en el centro del universo comico, esta/ esta situado un sol obscuro.

-Kate Green

 

Artista

Edgar Arceneaux

Los Angeles, California, USA

Drawing from his own background as well as the histories of art, science, philosophy, and literature, Edgar Arceneaux’s projects create webs of meaning from disparate people and things. Fueled by efforts to extract meaning from links between the seemingly unrelated, Arceneaux’s works resist easy categorization and one-to-one logic.
Giving visual expression to wordplay, Arceneaux’s Borrowed Sun (Critical Juxtaposition Test) (2004) places a pencil-drawn portrait of jazz musician Sun Ra on par with sketched representations of Sol LeWitt and Galileo, three legendary creators linked by cosmic connotations. Driven by metonymic relations, Arceneaux’s projects subvert the linear thinking that ordinarily structures pre-processed information, creating new networks for configuring fact, fiction, and memory.
Born in Los Angeles, CA in 1972, Edgar Arceneaux continues to live and work there. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2001. Solo exhibitions include The Kitchen, New York, NY (2005); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2003); and Studio Museum, Harlem, NY (2002). Group exhibitions include Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2005); and Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland (2004); and Lateral Thinking, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA (2002).
 

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Curador

Douglas Fogle

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Prior to joining the Carnegie Museum of Art in 2005, Douglas Fogle served for ten years as curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. While at the Walker, Fogle initiated an emerging artist series and a number of group exhibitions such as Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s (1997). His most recent exhibitions include Painting at the Edge of the World (2001), solo exhibitions with Catherine Opie and Julie Mehretu, and a historical survey of the conceptual uses of photography entitled The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, which opened at the Walker Art Center in October 2003 and traveled to the UCLA Hammer in Los Angeles before continuing on to Europe. He regularly contributes to journals such as Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, and Parkett.

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