Zach Feuer Gallery, Newman Popiashvili and Participant Inc are pleased to present solo exhibitions of work by the pioneering video artist Michel Auder. This three-venue survey exhibition will coincide with a weeklong screening of The Feature (2008), directed by Michel Auder and Andrew Neel, at Anthology Film Archives in New York and a screening of Van’s Last Performance (1972) at Volume2 in Los Angeles.
Zach Feuer Gallery will exhibit two seminal works - The Games: Olympic Variations (1984) and Rooftops and Other Scenes (1996) - in addition to an installation of recent works by Auder, organized by the artist Kate Levant. Both The Games and Rooftops feature techniques and interests that Auder revisits throughout his career. In The Games, Auder’s aborted trip to the Seattle Olympics initiates his exploration into appropriation from television whereas in Rooftops, Auder, using his camera as a voyeuristic tool, provides intimate portrait of his neighbors.
5 monitors will screen 2 – 6 minute vignettes at Newman Popiashvili Gallery. These “studies” are recent works that superimpose videos from images shot with a mobile phone and underwater cameras along with footage from Auder’s handheld device. The videos are screened one at a time with the images moving from one monitor to the next. In these videos a recurring image of a sleeping woman becomes the backdrop to dreamlike images of wolfs, rabbits, water and children.
Newman Popiashvili will also exhibit his work from 2009 title Heads of the Town – a slower-paced intimate view of people’s torsos where Auder is loyal to his style of montaging images from the past 30 years of video archives.
A cinematic installation at Participant Inc will include feature-length works from the late 60s onward, presented as a large-scale projection with seating and sound, encouraging visitors to spend time with a rotating schedule of durational works including Keeping Busy, A Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking, Chasing the Dragon, Cleopatra, and Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol. As well, an installation of silent video loops throughout the gallery will serve as index of the range of works on view.
Michel Auder was born in Soissons, France and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has been working in video since the inception of the Sony Portapak in 1969. Recent exhibitions and screenings include the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His work was included in the 5th Berlin Biennial, the Athens Biennial, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland and solo exhibitions at Cubitt in London and at Krabbesholm in Skive, Denmark. He will have a solo museum exhibition at Lunds Konsthall in Lund, Sweden this September 2010.
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