Storefront
for Art and Architecture
Warren
Neidich, Blind Man's Bluff (2002), video still
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Remapping
Warren Neidich
September 14 - October 14, 2002
Opening, September 14, 6-8 pm
Storefront for Art and Architecture
97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY
t. 212.431.5795 e. info@storefrontnews.org
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New York and Los Angeles-based artist Warren Neidich explores the
complex
relationships between architecture, film and photography in the urban
environment. In the Storefront gallery, Neidich will exhibit for the
first time in New York the complete work Remapping, a series of 10
foot
long digitally collaged photos of a Los Angeles office building with a
mirrored façade, as well as Blind Mans Bluff, a new video
piece shot
at the same location. A term borrowed from neurobiology, "Remapping"
is
a process by which one part of the brain takes over the function of an
adjacent, debilitated one. In Neidichs work it functions as an
analogy
for the way that information, via the narrative of film, has been
increasingly mapped onto the built environment and changed the way the
individual experiences time and space. In his opinion these reconfigured
relations have implications for the way that the brain processes
information resulting in what he refers to as the mutated
observer.
Neidich will also perform an intervention on the Storefront
façade
(designed by Vito Acconci and Steven Holl, 1993). By affixing stainless
steel panes to the inside and outside of four vertically rotating
panels,
he will transform the façade into a large-scale perspectival device
reflecting moving images of the street into the gallery and images of
the
gallery out onto the street. Visitors will be encouraged to adjust the
angles of the doors, allowing them to manipulate the building/ work of
art
and its optical effects.
In 2002 Warren Neidich has had one man exhibitions at the MullerdeChiara
Gallery in Berlin and Edward Mitterand Gallery in Geneva. Later this
year he will exhibit at The California Museum of Photography in
Riverside,
California. His collected writings entitled "Blow-up, Photography,
Cinema
and the Brain" with an introduction by Norman Bryson will be published
in
the fall of 2003 by DAP and the California Museum of Photography in
conjunction with the Ford Foundation. Artbrain.org #2, the website he
co-founded concerning art, culture and the brain, was launched last June
at the Basel Art Fair in Switzerland. He is also currently a
participating artist in the New Views Dumbo studio program sponsored by
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Founded in 1982, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit
organization committed to the advancement of innovative positions in
art,
architecture and design.
Gallery Hours:
Wednesday Sunday, 11am - 6pm
For more information:
Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY 10012, 97 Kenmare Street, NY 10012
t. 212.431.5795, f. 212.431.5755, e. info@storefrontnews.org
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