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V / A & P (various art and press) updated below
The closing party this weekend at Outlet went well – aside from the aforementioned NY Arts and MacFormat features on the series, also check out these glowing reviews in Die Beeld (English translation) and Pretoria News; there’s not a bad one on LQF, either. Abrie has decided to let the show run an extra week, so get out to TUT campus if you haven’t yet!
Finally, take a look at my flickr to see pix from the closing on Saturday, from the Memento performance yesterday, and new images of Sidonie – now 20 days old!
update – beeld article translation now live (rumor has it that the original Afrikaans is way more poetic, but you get the idea)
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Reminder: Time and Seeing, Compressionist closing reception
Note that the closing party is tomorrow @ 4pm in pretoria, and that the show has been extended an extra week til next Saturday! See today’s beeld and tomorrow’s pretoria news for reviews/features…
Time and Seeing
an exhibition of Compressionist prints
come have a drink with us, look at art,
and celebrate the birth of Sidonie Ridgway Stern (sorry, she will not be joining us)
Outlet gallery, Saturday 10 June, 16:00
earth (2006), metallic lambda print, 50 x 25 cm
Time and Seeing exhibits selections from nathaniel stern’s Compressionism – a "digital performance and analog archive.” Stern traverses bodies, spaces and objects with his scanner face, while the head is in motion. After being Compressed into digital images the size of a small sheet of paper, the files are then stretched, cropped and colored by hand. Compressionism is an exploration of media and perception, a transfiguration in Time and Seeing.
*The 11 pieces on show at Outlet are a preview for a large-scale exhibition of Compressionist works – ranging from photographic to traditional prints – in negotiation for early next year @ Art on Paper gallery, Johannesburg.
outlet
24 du Toit Street, Building 10, Projector Room, Arts Faculty, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Hours by appointment, +27 82 440 5406, outlet [at] mweb [dot] co [dot] za
more information @ http://compressionism.net and http://nathanielstern.com
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NY Arts Magazine Feature: Between Text and Flesh
Well, that much delayed bio / feature on my work in NY Arts Magazine is finally out! It’s a great piece, and I’m really pleased with how it looks and reads on their site… It will appear in the July / August print edtiion of the magazine, and my folks will be bringing me a hard copy when they come to visit their granddaughter in July. Here’s a li’l snippet from what they have to say about my work:
Staged via various media, Nathaniel Stern’s work enacts the interstices of body, language and technology. It seeks to force us to look again at the relationships between the three, and invites us to experiment with their relation. His body of work can, perhaps, be described as an exploration of the interstitial itself–revisiting between technology and text the dangerous spaces of enfleshment, incipience, and process.