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Massimo Audiello
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David
Krippendorff - Luisa Rabbia
The
Last Resort
May 7 June 19,
2004
Massimo Audiello is
pleased to present, The Last Resort, an exhibition of new works
by David Krippendorff and Luisa Rabbia. The show will open on
May 7th and run through June 19th, 2004. The opening reception
is on Friday, May 7th from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Luisa Rabbia uses a
rare sensibility of touch, literally fusing diverse media with
a 'sense' of drawing. In this show she presents a combination
of drawings and sculptures which have a disturbing and ethereal
presence.
Rabbia is always concerned with showing the human body expressing
the subject's frailty and psychic exposure, and for this show
she delves further into realms of material and social exposure,
creating figures of homeless, destitute bodies. They seem to be
crushed by the gravity of their own anonymity, or the world's
forgetfulness, and at the same time they are deeply specific and
personal and transcendent.
David Krippendorff,
in his videos, paintings and photographs, has been analyzing the
seductive power of Hollywood, and the way it has come to symbolize
a world of forgetfulness and escape. He takes tiny fragments from
movies and puts them under an existential microscope, revealing
things that are beautiful and frightening. In this show, Krippendorff
looks at the
'phenomenon' of Rita Hayworth in the film that made her an immortal
icon:
Gilda. Among the voluptuous interiors of a Hollywood dream Rita,
Gilda and America, seem oblivious to much of the existence of
outside. Hayworth and Hollywood are transfigured as a dance of
seduction is frozen in hysterical shakes. The creeping contradiction
seems to break through the cosmetic perfection, and what was luxurious
begins to feel distinctly claustrophobic.
Each artist with two
unsettling topics from two opposite points on the same continuum.
The Last Resort examines the end of the line from two extreme
perspectives revealing that the pinnacle of success and beauty
are not so far from total destitution and repugnance.
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