[LuxWeeklyNews] LUX Weekly News: 6th – 11th March 2007 EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

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LUX Weekly News 6th – 11th March 2007
EVENTS AND OPENINGS IN LONDON THIS WEEK

1. Moving Picture, Marcel Dzama. Timothy Taylor Gallery. 8 March – 13  
April.

2. David Blandy, Jerwood Artist’s Platform, Cell Project Space. 10  
March – 15 April.

LUX LONDON EVENTS CALENDAR the most comprehensive daily listing of  
artists' moving image events, screenings and exhibitions in London  
www.lux.org.uk/resources/calendar.htm

1.
8th March – 13th April
Marcel Dzama: Moving Picture
Timothy Taylor Gallery
21 and 24 Dering Street
London, W1S 1TT
Open 10-6pm Mon-Fri; 10-1pm Sat
www.timothytaylorgallery.com

Timothy Taylor Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of new  
work by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama.  For his third show at the  
gallery, Dzama will be showing a 30-minute film, The Lotus Eaters.  A  
rough cut was first screened at MoMA, New York, in 2006.  Since then  
Dzama has re-filmed and edited The Lotus Eaters, and the Director’s  
Cut will be premiered in a specially installed mini-cinema at 21  
Dering Street.

The Lotus Eaters tells the story of an artist driven insane by the  
death of his wife.  The artist tries to bring her back to life by  
drawing a fantasy world inhabited by his wife and a variety of  
creatures.  He is killed by his doppelgänger and enters the fantasy  
world.  Once inside this parallel universe, the creatures attack him  
and his wife comes to the rescue.  Shot in black and white, without  
dialogue, and accompanied by a 1940s soundtrack, the film is  
reminiscent of Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou (1929).

I’ve been making films since I was a kid.  I had a Fisher Price Pixel  
Vision camera that I got when I was 12.  The first thing I remember  
filming was a stop motion animation with creatures I had made out of  
plasticine.

Marcel Dzama, 2007

The Lotus Eaters brings to life the cast of characters Marcel has  
been drawing since his childhood.  The long, dark, cold Winnipeg  
winters meant that Marcel spent a lot of time inside drawing a  
dystopian world inhabited by femmes fatale, bats, bears, cowboys and  
superheroes. Tree people, masked women and hybrids of humans, animals  
and plants evoke Ovid’s Metamorphoses.  A selection of costumes and  
photo-collages from the film will be displayed in our 24 Dering  
Street space. Despite a wide range of influences from literature and  
art history, the film, costumes and photo-collages in this exhibition  
are unmistakeably and uniquely Marcel Dzama.



2.
10th March – 15th April 2007
David Blandy: Jerwood Artists Platform
258 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9DA
www.cell.org.uk

Private View Friday 9th March 2007 6.30-9.30pm
10th March-15th April 2007
Performance 9.15pm - 9.30pm
Open Fri.-Sun. 12-6pm or by appointment
Free Admission & Wheel Chair Access
Free comic for first 1,000 visitors!

David Blandy’s first major London solo exhibition, as part of the  
Jerwood Artists Platform, is presented as a library of his video  
works, comics and personal influences.

In the main gallery at Cell Project Space visitors will be able to  
thumb through Blandy’s personal collection of classic comics, groove  
to a fine selection of rare Northern Soul vinyl before settling down  
for a session on his PS2. At listening posts stationed throughout the  
library viewers can self-select any of Blandy’s backlog of artist’s  
videos from early humorous, musical, lip-synching works to his more  
recent ‘Barefoot Lone Pilgrim’ trilogy. Echoing the 70’s TV classic,  
in Blandy’s version we follow the orange Kung-fu robed artist cum  
pilgrim as he undertakes a journey of self-discovery from the  
expanses of the Lake District to the commotion of North London,  
guided only by hip-hop from his portable record player and brief  
encounters with heroes Bruce Lee and Kaine.

Throughout Blandy’s work there is a questioning of the extent to  
which the self is formed through the ubiquity of mass media -  
records, film or TV. In his library, Blandy lays bare his  
appropriation, sampling and referencing of hip-hop, soul, kung-fu and  
youth culture in an attempt to reveal his rambling thoughts and  
cultural confusion.

The exhibition includes three new commissions. ‘The Man from  
Elsewhere: Fortress of Solitude’, a short video, in which a this time  
a suited and booted Blandy, lives the mediated existence of The Man  
trapped in a world where filmic reality slips in and out of virtual  
and animated worlds. In the accompanying comic ‘The Man from  
Elsewhere: Issue 2’ we continue to follow our eponymous hero, in  
print, as he is confronted by multiple visions of reality. In the  
third video, presented in a plush and gilded cinema space, Blandy  
takes on the persona of the ‘White and Black Minstrel’, investigating  
his cultural identity and the contemporary position of minstrelsy and  
the artist as entertainer. Echoing an earlier work, Blandy lip-syncs  
to Syl Johnson’s underground soul classic, ‘Is it because I’m Black’,  
but this time presents it as a vaudeville performance by an inverted  
minstrel/clown /image of death, filmed in vast Art-Deco Cinema,  
mixing soulful grunts and yelps with air guitar on his plastic cane.

Advance copies of his catalogue with essay by Tom Morton are  
available on request



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