American Fine
Arts, Co.
Idioterne,
Gareth wears T-shirt by Martin Kippenberger, shoes by Charles
Durning, Gardar wears T-shirt by Felix Guattari
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LARS VON
TRIER
Gareth James and Gardar Eide Einarsson
May 22 - July 6, 2002
American Fine Arts, Co.
22 Wooster Street
New York, NY 10013
Tel (212) 431-1737
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LARS VON TRIER: eight or so water-damaged reflections excavated from
a
cave in upstate New York, Northern Southern France.
LARS VON TRIER is a collaboration between Gareth James and Gardar Eide
Einarsson, consisting of sculpture, photography and drawing, derived
from
their confusion about an anecdote ... told by a Danish friend ... about
Lars von Trier (the great living Danish filmmaker) ... and the tuxedo of
the great (dead) Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer: Von Trier
purchases
Dreyer's tux at auction, not to display reverentially in a finely
crafted
vitrine but for his own adornment at a Cannes premiere of one of his own
films. With a mixture of horror, amusement, a desire for emulation as
much
as revenge, James and Einarsson indulge in a little necrophiliac
post-science fiction, reanimating the mediatized body of LARS VON TRIER
in
the vain attempt to comprehend what happens when a Von Trier wears the
symbolic body of a Dreyer.
For more information go to:
http://www.e-flux.com/site2002/index.phtml?client=welcome/american-fi
ne-arts/
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