Michael Guidetti
July 24 – August 22, 2009Opening, Friday, July 24th, 6-9pm
The Jancar Jones Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibit by San Francisco-based artist, Michael Guidetti.
The exhibit will include a number of multimedia works, which focus on the formal qualities of both virtual and physical media. Through his use of projections, Guidetti emphasizes the ephemeral qualities of light while also drawing attention to its structural form. Guidetti creates virtual models of objects or environments that, in turn, are projected onto loosely painted surfaces. Through his combination of the slick, dehumanized characteristics of computer generated 3-D models and the soft edges of somewhat flat perspectival spaces (rendered in watercolor) he is able to emphasize the peculiar attributes of both media. The light from the projection draws out the sculptural qualities of the surface onto which it projects. In spite of its real time three-dimensionality, the painting gains depth. Similarly the virtual space or object moves out, into the room, itself becoming physical. Through this interaction, both media are exposed, making apparent the respective dependency they have on one another. As Guidetti notes, not only does the simultaneous opposition and interaction of media position the pieces “on both borders of the here and there” but their ultimate reception in material space contributes to their resulting dimension or subtraction of dimension.
Guidetti’s work will also be on view simultaneously in Nothing, a Jancar Jones Gallery off-site project at 389 Valencia Street, San Francisco, July 16 through August 16, 2009.
Michael Guidetti received his BFA from the California College of the Arts, Oakland.
Jancar Jones Gallery
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San Francisco, CA 94103
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