Apoohcalypse Now
Artemio
Wednesday, December 10 to Tuesday, December 16
Screened during gallery hours: Noon-6pm, Tues-Sat
New Langton Arts presents three films/videos selected by artist Julio Cesar Morales. The second is Apoohcalypse Now (2002; 8:26 min.)
Apoohcalypse Now takes Marlon Brando's infamous monologue from Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film and interprets it through the children's character Winnie the Pooh. The movie conflates two different approaches to aestheticizing popular narratives, creating a mixture of highly stylized visual terms that engage the politics of appropriation while questioning the aesthetics of war and escapism.
Biography: Artemio (born Mexico City, 1976) is a multimedia artist whose practice spans video, sculpture and painting. Through the appropriation and reinterpretation of pop cultural elements and icons Narro seeks to juxtapose a wide range of concepts including love, war, audience, kitsch and repulsion. Exhibitions include Otra de Vaqueros, CECCH, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève, Geneva (2007); Rising Stars: North Latin Americans, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City; Perdidos en el despacio, Fundació Espai de Arte Contemporáneo, Girona; Distor, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2006); T1 Torino Triennale, Tremusei, Turin; Mexico Attacks!, MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Monuments to the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, Seducidos por el accidente, Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna (2005); and Sólo los personajes cambian, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, NL (2004).
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1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
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