LUX MONTHLY - Invitation to opening of Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love at LUX 28, Thursday 13th November 7-9pm

[newswire at lux.org.uk]


You are invited to the preview of Steve Reinke, Hobbit Love is the  
Greatest Love at LUX 28 on Thursday 13th November from 7-9pm

14 November - 19 December 2008
Steve Reinke: Hobbit Love is the Greatest Love
LUX 28, 28 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, London E8
Opening hours: 12 - 5, Wednesday - Friday. 12 - 6, Saturday
Other times by appointment, please ring 020 7503 3980.
Preview: Thurs 13th November 7 -9pm

Artist Talk: Saturday 15th November at 3pm. Steve Reinke in  
conversation with Adrian Rifkin, admission free, to book a place  
email salon at lux.org.uk

LUX 28 presents a new solo exhibition by Canadian artist Steve Reinke.

Steve Reinke is a Canadian artist best known for his video work.  
Often outrageous, yet nonetheless engaging and even titillating, his  
themes range from introspective anxiety to bemused and appreciative  
voyeurism. Reinke’s voice is articulate and literate and often  
speaks in the voice of academic or cultural authority. His work  
diverges into absurd, unexpected directions — paradoxes, non- 
sequiturs, inadequate hypotheses, cruel jokes, and contorted  
metaphors – delivered in Reinke’ inimitably laconic and  
dispassionate tones.

Reinke’s work also often invokes the idea of the anthology, along  
with the taxonomical urge to exhaustively catalogue existence. The  
exhibition at LUX 28 will present a kind of anthology of Reinke’s  
video work to date. This will include the ambitious project, The  
Hundred Videos (1989-1996), a six-year project Reinke stated would  
constitute his work as a young artist, and recent works such as My  
Rectum is Not a Grave (To a Film Industry in Crisis) (2007), Boy/ 
Analysis: An Abridgement of Melanie Klein’s ‘Narrative of a Child  
Analysis (2008) and Final Thoughts, an ongoing series that will only  
be completed at the moment of Reinke’s death.

Alongside projected works and an extensive video library the  
exhibition will also present a number of his wall pieces including  
The American Military Casualties of the Second Gulf War for Whom  
Photographs Were Available as of November 6, 2006 Arranged by  
Attractiveness and Guernica (2005). Reinke’s disquieting combination  
of light and playful monologues, laced with an acid humour, prods and  
pokes at the sub-conscious underbelly of everyday life.

‘There is no such thing as self-esteem. I don’t trust anyone who  
doesn’t have frequent bouts of self-loathing…Whenever I hear the  
word ‘culture’ I think of bacteria mutating under an ultraviolet  
light and I’m happy again for a while. Within the Petri dish:  
unfettered, egoless desire, the proliferation of new possibilities,  
ideas made flesh, uncaring and finally airborne. Empathy is a tool  
for making the cruelty more precise. Beauty is independent of taste;  
the sublime only works for suckers. Whenever I laugh I feel guilty.’  
Reinke



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