Chinatown is Proud to Present an Andrew Berardini Production
Saturday July 26th, 8:30pm
Chung King Road
A Double Feature of Titanic Abilities and Frightening Potential! Horror! Shock! Devastation! Murder! as the Most Grotesque Monstrosity of All Breaks Loose on the Most Significant Art District in the Americas!
"How to…" & "Film Noir"
Not for the faint of heart or the weak of spirit!
Starring
Suzie Asado, Neil Beloufa, Erin Cosgrove, Spencer Douglass, Gustavo Herrera, Chris Doyle, Karl Erickson, Carlee Fernandez, Drew Heitzler, Matt Marello, Ciprian Muresan, Nasty Nets, Michele O’Marah, Dane Picard, Rudy Bust aka Jonathan Pylypchuk, Agathe Snow, Joe Sola, and Many More…
With special guests appearances by
John Baldessari and Bob Ross
With special thanks to the Chung King Business Association, Mason Fong of Fong’s, and all the participating artists and galleries.
“How to…” and “Film Noir” a Chinatown Double Feature!
Only Saturday, July 26 at 8 pm on Chung King Rd, Los Angeles.
In collaboration with Acuna-Hansen, Bonelli Contemporary, China Art Objects, Chung King Project, Kontainer, Peres Projects, The Box, Fringe Exhibitions, The Happy Lion, High Energy Constructs, David Kordansky Gallery, Messler/Hug, Mary Goldman Gallery, Ooga Booga, Redling Fine Art, Sister, Sam Lee Gallery, Solway Jones.
Produced by Andrew Berardini
On July 26 starting at 8:30 (or as soon as it's dark enough), writer Andrew Berardini has organized together a series of films from the artists who show at the sundry galleries around Chinatown, the most important art district in the Americas, and a few more to from the annals of art history.
The first feature "How to..." plays with the "How to..." genre which artists have been using literally or figuratively in their practices since the dawn of modern art. As soon as there were painters, there were how to paint guides and paint-by numbers kits shipped and sold to every aspiring painter, the most famous modern incarnation being soft spoken 70s landscape painter, Bob Ross. With conceptual art, John Baldessari gave his own set of "How to" films with a dry wit and conceptual base all his own, easily capturing the deadpan ethereality of the fragmented movement. The "How to..." genre informs the would-be student in literally how to go about doing something, but making art is a less than literal gesture. And thus the artists here, though sometimes directly play with the "How to.." genre, all of them show us how to do things as art only can: ambiguously, absurdly, playfully, poetically and if Oscar Wilde is to be trusted, uselessly.
The second feature, “Film Noir,” shows artists as they play with movies and the cinematic imaginary in their gestures, from the cut up to the documentary. These longer features reveal the openings and folds in past horrors and perplexities made anew through imaginary possibilities. The night time film experience, the drive-in movie, the film parlor, and the summer series all resound in our imaginations whether watched from the back of a Chevy in suburbia or on a sheet in the African hinterlands, this experience leaves strange and often beautiful gaps, which these artists wilfully explore.
Artists include Suze Asado, Neil Beloufa, Erin Cosgrove, Chris Doyle, Karl Erickson, Carlee Fernandez, Drew Heitzler, Matt Marello, Ciprian Muresan, Nasty Nets, Michele O’Marah, Dane Picard, Jonathan Pylupchuk, Agathe Snow, Joe Sola and Many More…
With special guests appearances by John Baldessari and Bob Ross
With special thanks to the Chung King Business Association, Mason Fong of Fong’s, and all the participating artists and galleries.
