Alex Bag - Hardcover
New York-based artist Alex Bag is known for her acerbic video art--by turns hilarious and horrific--which co-opts the aesthetics and manipulative tactics of pop culture. Bag skewers the strategies of music and home videos, talk shows, news and advertising with irreverent and conceptually sharp parodies that leave nothing sacred: the art world, consumer culture and Private Jessica Lynch all serve as material for her riotous characters. The most in-depth publication on her work to date, this volume, published concurrently with an exhibition at the Whitney Museum, features texts by Whitney curator Shamim Momin, Artforum contributing editor David Rimanelli and gallerist Elizabeth Dee, as well as an interview with the artist, and a comprehensive selection of stills from her video oeuvre, including the iconic art school parody, Untitled (Fall '95) and the hilarious art world send-up The Van.
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Review:
In 1995, as Matthew Barney became famous for his opulent, surrealist film epic, video artist Alex Bag rose to stardom as a kind of anti-Cremaster, creating no-budget video art with little more than cheap wigs, bedsheet backdrops, appropriated television clips, and stuffed animals.
The book contains stills, photographs, reproductions of her notebook pages, essays by critics, and scripts for the videos. Reading these screenplays shifts the focus from the brilliance of Bag's performances and her purposefully makeshift art direction to the strength of her writing. Her pitch-perfect use of vernacular speech and mastery of of plot and character become clearer, underscoring what's long been known - she is a comic genuis, and one of the world's coolest harridans. (Johanna Fateman Bookforum)
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The book contains stills, photographs, reproductions of her notebook pages, essays by critics, and scripts for the videos. Reading these screenplays shifts the focus from the brilliance of Bag's performances and her purposefully makeshift art direction to the strength of her writing. Her pitch-perfect use of vernacular speech and mastery of of plot and character become clearer, underscoring what's long been known - she is a comic genuis, and one of the world's coolest harridans. (Johanna Fateman Bookforum)
Reading these screenplays shifts the focus from the brilliance of Bag's performances and her purposefully makeshift art direction to the strength of her writing. Bag's post-Pop, pre-YouTube tour de force has become a prescient cult classic for a new generation. —Johanna Fateman
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- PublisherHatje Cantz
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 3775724001
- ISBN 13 9783775724005
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages112
- EditorDee Elisabeth
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