Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago will show Daria Martin's Film Minotaur |
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| Written by rubin |
| Sunday, 28 June 2009 03:39 |
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Rodin’s erotic sculpture portrays the part-man, part-bull figure from Greek mythology with a naked young female figure in its grasp. Martin carefully edited the film to juxtapose the movements of the two dancers with close-up views of the sculpture; images of the sculpture in a book; views of the wooded exterior of Halprin's Northern California studio where the dance takes place; and shots of Halprin herself. In doing so, Martin creates a complex and multilayered synthesis of various art forms -- film, dance, and sculpture -- while simultaneously meditating on the process through which art is made, and the shifting sexual dynamics between men and women as embodied in both the sculpture and Halprin’s performative interpretation of it. Halprin’s life and work significantly influences Martin’s use of implicit sensuality and a heightened awareness of the body and its relationship to other objects and the surrounding space. Daria Martin was born in 1973 in San Francisco and lives and works in London. This installation is the third in a series of projects jointly developed by and presented as part of the Three M Project, a consortium of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, with the purpose of stimulating the creation of new work by artists not yet well-known in the United States. The MCA presentation is coordinated by Dominic Molon, MCA Curator. Click on logo below to add this article to your favorite Social Website ~ |
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