In my review of three exhibitions in Chelsea I discuss the intersections between contemporary art and the visual and rhetorical strategies of information and news media. In Wolfgang Staehle's monumental real-time live feed projections, Adel Abdessemed's sculptures, installations, videos and photographs and Masato Seto's photoportraits (at right), each artist undertakes a different dialog with the imagery of mass media. Staehle collapses the codes of 24-hour news networks, webcams, landscape photography and 18th century landscape paintings. Seto offers unsettling documentary views into the booths of betel nut beauties in their glass boxes in Taiwanese cityscapes. And, at his best, Abdessemed undertakes a clever and unsettling critique of our indoctrinated media sensibilities. Read the whole review here.
More or Less Distorted Realities
In my review of three exhibitions in Chelsea I discuss the intersections between contemporary art and the visual and rhetorical strategies of information and news media. In Wolfgang Staehle's monumental real-time live feed projections, Adel Abdessemed's sculptures, installations, videos and photographs and Masato Seto's photoportraits (at right), each artist undertakes a different dialog with the imagery of mass media. Staehle collapses the codes of 24-hour news networks, webcams, landscape photography and 18th century landscape paintings. Seto offers unsettling documentary views into the booths of betel nut beauties in their glass boxes in Taiwanese cityscapes. And, at his best, Abdessemed undertakes a clever and unsettling critique of our indoctrinated media sensibilities. Read the whole review here.
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