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The first showing in Scotland of internationally acclaimed young Portuguese artists The first in a five-part ten month series of commisions, exhibitions and events Portuguese Waves Co-curated by Iliyana Nedkova and Filipa Oliveira
14 Nov 09 – 13 Jan 10
free exhibition guide
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Cinematic presents artists’ video and sound works that explore the strong relationship between the language of film and contemporary art. The exhibition is conceived in response to the location of the Threshold artspace where all performing arts come together. The intimacy between cinema and artists’ moving image is present in all of the selected works thus immediately transporting us to the land of cinema – be it through memory association, or by appropriation yet without the ubiquitous black box or dimmed lights. The exhibition features new commissions and earlier acquisitions showing at the different ‘project rooms’ of the artspace including:
Wave = a long canvas of 22 flat screens in a row under the copper-clad dome
30 min loop comprised of 6 short artists’ films and videos showing back to back as 22-channel video installations including new commissions and a curated selection of works from the Horsecross collection of contemporary art:
To President (Drinking Version) (2005-07) | José Maçãs de Carvalho (Portugal) NEW
By incessantly repeating found Hollywood footage starring Marylin Monroe, re-worked with new superimposed subtitles, the artist urges us to reflect on the connection between film and politics, between politics and the construction of the image.
Circles and Squares (2009) | Igor Krenz (Poland) Drawing attention to the film industry’s secret grammar of cue marks, the artist creates a piece of abstract art by revealing the hidden code system used by projectionists.
x 24 (2008) | Jason Dee (UK)
Combining multiple movie clips of archive footage featuring celebrities, paparazzis and flash photography, the artist builds a Mexican wave of white glow and glamour which highlight the relationship between still and moving imagery.
Sequence (2006) | Adriana Molder (Portugal) NEW
Throwing down photographs of Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper as if they were playing cards, the artist creates a kind of war of the sexes, or a game of attraction between two irresistible characters. The clue is in the final shot: an iconic publicity photograph from the film Morocco (1930) (dir. Josef von Sternberg).
Empire (After Andy Warhol) (2005) | Ergin Cavusoglu (Bulgaria/UK) Slowing down the transition from dusk to night over a forlorn building, the artist echoes Warhol’s pioneering use of single continuous take in extremis but instead creates a subtle interplay of light and dark silently gliding across the 22 screens.
Out of Character ASCII (2009) | Vuk Cosic (Serbia/Slovenia) Selecting scenes from twenty classic films ranging from Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) to The Matrix (1999) the artist applies a retro-futuristic ASCII filter to the history of cinema and also exposes ‘the ones and zeros’ of which popular cinema icons are made of.
Threshold artspace | Bold contemporary art by Scottish and international artists in Perth since 2005 Pioneered and managed by Horscecross Arts | Core funded by the Scottish Arts Council and Perth and Kinross Council