If you like video art, you're going to want to check out the upcoming three man show tht opens 06.25.09 at Team Gallery entitled Arcangel, Pinard, Routson.

Cory Arcangel will be represented by a new video, Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11, which debuted last month at the Kunstmuseum in Graz. Arcangel painstakingly edited YouTube footage of cats playing on pianos into an arrangement of Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, a pioneering work of 'atonal' music. Alongside the video, Arcangel will show two new Photoshop Gradients, large abstract photographs created to highlight a very artificial tool for bending colors. Both the photographs and the video continue the artist's explorations into the possibility that the sublime can be invoked by rapidly outdating technologies.

Guillaume Pinard, based in Marseille, creates darkly funny videos using Flash animation to draw bleak, flat realms populated by animals and insects. The acts of violent aggression and images of grotesque decomposition are softened by the manner in which they are rendered — bold color and fascinating geometric compositions belie cruel slaughter and conniving betrayals.

Jon Routson, working in Baltimore, is best known for his bootleg movies — clumsy recordings of entire films made in movie theaters and shown in art galleries. For this exhibition, Routson will show work from his Spinners series, digital projections of circular images that rotate on the wall, creating a somewhat sickening feeling for the spectator. Part of the queasiness also arises from the subjects, among them Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney.

Read more on Team's site. Don't forget Arcangel's site and his Wiki for more information. Additionally, check out Routson and Pinard's pages on Team's site.

Arcangel, Pinard, Routson
Various Artists
Team Gallery
06.25.09 - 07.31.09

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