![]() by means of a different, but similarly common landscape. A kind of reimagining of the famed John Cheever story “The Swimmer” (1964), in which a probably deranged man decides to swim home only through his neighbors’ backyard pools, Desire Lines criss-crosses the U.S. Filmed across fourteen states between August 2017 and March 2019 on a handheld camcorder, the fifteen-minute film is described as an “ode to the surreal potential of parking lots across America”, and focuses solely on the aforementioned liminal space. In a separate room, a video work by New-York based, American artist Tommy Malekoff, Desire Lines (2019), plays on an endless loop. When the performance was over, the two hugged still, a suggestion of danger and the possibility for a potential devouring lingered in the air. Here, the fraternal aspect added an even more ominous edge to the already dark happenings: at times, it seemed that each brother might overcome the other entirely - and the audience as well. As Gesualdo’s score resounded from behind a curtain, the brothers stalked up and down the Fondazione Merz’s spacious front room, retracing their steps in an obsessive trance and glancing out at the viewers as though from beyond the grave. The performance immediately set the tone for the rest of the exhibition with its stark portrayal of the extremes of life and death, ascension and degradation. Popular in border regions in the 18th and 19th centuries, sin eating involved the ceremonial eating and drinking in the presence of a corpse, and was believed to absolve the deceased of their wrongdoings. Inspired by a walk the brothers took in a cemetery in Naples, the piece’s choreography mimics the traditional death ritual of sin eating. The production, Sparge la morte (2022), was originally performed by Di Liberto and his brother Davide two years ago, and features music by the madrigal composer Carl Gesualdo. The exhibition’s opening coincided with a live performance by the artist Giuseppe Di Liberto on the evening of March 18th, 2024. To be a successful artist today, we have to adapt to the times.Īnd, “the times are a changin”. You’ll lose yourself before discovering yourself. I just personally try not to get wrapped up in that. People are more inclined to follow trends, solely on the fact that the minions find happiness in trendy wholeness. So, why not join them?īut, at the same time, I do feel that the internet has a weakened layer of “genuineness”.Įverything is a numbers game, followers over actual quality. Galleries, curators, dealers, buyers- they all found their place on the world wide web. It’s an amazing teacher if you have the right intentions and treat her right. You can sculpt it to be the ultimate tool. It’s an amazing platform that has no limits the possibilities are endless. So that’s cool.ĭo you think the internet made it easier or harder for the modern day artist? plus, he wrote me to be a lot smoother than I actually am. The director, Jean Michel, is a brilliant guy. I’ve never acted before, so it’ll be an interesting experience to say the least. The film has many layers to it, and my story is just one. ![]() I’m sort of playing myself, in a fictional story, with a lot of parallels to my actual life as an artist. Tell me about this film you’re going to be in. The series are eras, and each era is defined by the story of a piece. I definitely create in series, but each piece will always have its own identity, an individual story behind it. I’ll usually just go to bookstores and go through the bins on different artists.ĭo you create work in series or is everyone of your paintings an individual idea? I moved to the city around 2012 - 2013, but was back and forth for a little while. There’s really nothing to do up there, it’s actually like suburbia. Yeah, I just commuted from my parents house. John’s for the first half, and then I transferred to Ramapo up in New Jersey. I always wanted to add more to the photo, like I could never express what I wanted to through just photographs. For my senior thesis I started making collages and from then on it just never really stopped. I originally went to school for music, but didn’t really take it too seriously, so then switched majors to photography.
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