The Art/Tapes/22 Exhibition at the University Art Museum will be closing this Sunday after a six week run. The exhibit gives a historical insight into the way videos were made in the 1970s and their subsequent transformation as a medium and art form. Videos from major international artists like Vito Acconci, Jannis Kounellis and Long Beach's own Bill Viola will be shown. Viola served as techncial director of the studio from 1974 to 1976.
The videos have recently been restored by the Venice Biennale Foundation's Historic Archives of Contemporary Arts. They were produced in Italy at the Art/Tapes/22 studio from 1973 to 1976. At the time, the studio was the first of its kind in Europe.
"The video that we worked with at art/tapes/22 was not the video we know today. Looking at the videotapes made at that time, it is hard to believe that this grainy, low resolution, black and white image was then the advanced technology of the time," said Viola.
Alice Hutchinson serves as curator of the exhibition, which will also include Maria Gloria Bicocchi’s 2003 Tra Firenze e Santa Teresa dentro le quinte dell’arte translated into English for the first time.
"Due to the link with Long Beach via Bill Viola, and David Ross, art/tapes/22 is important to bring to Los Angeles. The last exhibition of these tapes, Americans in Florence/Europeans in Florence,was in 1975," said Hutchinson.
information gathered from UAM press release.
No comments:
Post a Comment