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January 12, 2008- March 1, 2008
Reception: January 12, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Luis Gispert
Mary Boone Gallery
541 W 24th St Luis Gispert Photograph from ‘Smother’ (Air Hockey) (2007) |
Smother, the 26-minute film, is premiering at Mary Boone Gallery. Bathed in the atmosphere of 1980's Miami, the film explores violent and sometimes twisted childhood nightmares through the retrograde lens of Freudian analysis. Drifting between real and hyper-real, the film follows an 11-year-old boy as he undergoes a series of painful physical transformations that ultimately lead him to break the adolescent bonds that bind him to his overbearing mother. Gispert wrote the script with artist Orly Genger and collaborated on the soundtrack with the Miami-based interdisciplinary bass experimentalists Phoenecia (Joshua Kay & Romulo Del Castillo).
Large format photographs from Smother are shown at Mary Boone Gallery, while the mise-en-scène of the film is captured at Zach Feuer Gallery in photographs that combine images of incredibly ornate truck interiors with surreal Latin-American socio-economic tableaus. These works explore the aesthetics of wealth as they relate to the poverty and oppression evidenced in much of the Western world. This tension between auspicious wealth and cultural naiveté is also apparent in the installation of sculpture at Zach Feuer Gallery. Here, Gispert employs neon lights, mirrors, pastel colors and high-gloss lacquer finishes to reference the interiors of the opulent, narco-nouveau riche mansions remembered from his Miami childhood. Luis Gispert was born in 1972 in New Jersey and raised in Miami, Florida. His work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and in exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Art, London; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai, China. Solo exhibitions include Loud Image at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College and Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, and Steromongrel which premiered at the Whitney Museum and traveled to the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. A survey exhibition of his work will open at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami in 2008. Gispert currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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