Mythical Montage - Paintings Parallel 3D Animated VideoNina Kuo , painter - Lorin Roser, animator
at Gallery 456
June 12 – July 10, 2009
Press release: There is a unique interplay between this duo of Artists –Animated Video loops by Lorin Roser capture the Asian-inspired Painted scenes by Nina Kuo. Subjects include classical scholar or Tai Chi figures that evoke modern-day cultural realities. Both presentations of “Bubbling Pond” and floating sculptural shapes of scholar rocks are constructed in moving animations and in a painting showing dynamic bursting visualizations. Colorful. Pop icons of urban life are introduced as in the “Tang Lady Housewife” painting while the video uses architectonic models with cyber vacuum cleaner in offbeat fantasy scenes of abstracted compositions that dazzle us. Futuristic connotations capturing the anachronistic mood of Chinese literati landscapes are taken from Huangshan or Fu Bao Shi landscapes with montaged cyber forms that take us to another dimension. We enter as scholars retreating into a surreal meditative spirit. One examines the spiritual journey of each work and its influences from cultural traditions to new perspectives. These large-scale Kuo paintings present layers of textured forms as Roser’s 3D animations are juxtaposed computer-generated moving frames with choreographed music. Both forms reveal an impact of emotion and imaginary narratives that reveal how invented memories of past lost land-scapes are transformed into futuristic scenes. These works truly evoke new cyber forms that are montaged into an abstracted mental world. There is strong evidence that Kuo’s paintings became inspiration for Roser’s 3-D Animated Videos and vice versa – a rare travelogue of experiences.
Exhibited: New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, P.S1, Newark Museum, Flushing Town Hall, Plum Blossoms, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
Reviews: Eleanor Heartney (catalog), Jonathan Goodman (Art in America), Benjamin Genocchio and Holland Cotter (New York Times)
Opening June 12 - 6:00-8:30 pm Reception – Open to All
Location: 456 Broadway – at Grand St. NYC
Poetry with Luis Francia, writer, poet, professor at NYU, won PEN Center Open Book award and author of Phillippine American book “Eye of the Fish”
Live Music - Helen Yee, member “Music From China” and “Invert” Ensemble
PRESS Conference- June 11 – thanks to Alan Chow and Vivian Huang
Hours- M-F 12-6 pm or by appointment
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