Oli Sorenson.

Art. Music. Text.
VIDEO PISTOLETTO

Inspired from the live works of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto (1933-) of meticulously breaking large mirrors, here Sorenson instead damages large format Liquid Crystal Display video monitors. Due to the unpredictable nature of the breaking process, LCD screening units are transformed into unique objects, so viewers must reassess the materiality of these objects. Instead of looking through the screens, viewers must now look at the shattered patterns on the broken TVs, since their mediating function as windows to a virtual world is now inverted to present concrete and sculptural objects.

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Video Pistoletto, general view Popop Gallery (before performance), 60inch monitors, silver painted hammer and chisel, Dec. 2014


Video Pistoletto, general view FILE Festival (after performance), 46inch monitors (1 24inch monitor), Jun. 2015


Video Pistoletto, view of east wall, La Castiglione Gallery, Inkjet on paper, 4x 42x28in, March 2017

Video Pistoletto, view of west wall, La Castiglione Gallery, Inkjet on paper, 3x 24x36in, March 2017


Video Pistoletto, general view Art Souterrain (after performance), 46inch monitors, Mar. 2016


Video Pistoletto screens, (detail) 2015-16


Video Pistoletto 6016-6197, inkjet on paper, 2x 42x28in, 2017


Video Pistoletto Performance, Popop Gallery, Dec. 2014


Video Pistoletto Performance, FILE Festival, Dec. 2014


"Video Pistoletto Performance at Popop Gallery" (video archive) 2014


"Video Pistoletto Performance at FILE Festival" (video archive) 2015


Screens after performance (detail), Dec. 2014


Screens after performance (detail), Dec. 2014


Screens after performance (detail), Dec. 2014


Screens after performance (detail), Jun. 2015


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Feb. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Dec. 2014


Screens after performance (detail), Feb. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Jun. 2015


Screens after performance (detail), Feb. 2016


Screens after performance (detail), Mar. 2016


Cover of Etc Media, June 2015

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