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Tim White-Sobieski: "Visor'd" Video/light/sculpture installation in Newark, NJ
Tim White-Sobieski, once famous for his stunning video wall along the "traveling staircase" in Louis Vuitton headquarters in Paris, is showing an even more grandiose installation in the largest commercial gallery in North America - Rupert Ravens Contemporary: sculptures, video and light animation
NEW YORK, NY, March 26, 2009 /Museums PR News/ -- Illuminated by the projections onto 12 translucent screens, several spotlights and a massive round light panel in the far end of the room, aluminum sculptures shaped like alien rocks form sort of a Zen garden. The installation is "larger than life" in its scale of ideas and in potential scale of exhibition adjusted to a much greater space (theoretically, it could take over an entire museum). Tim White-Sobieski is primarily known for his enigmatic videos and large-scale abstract and staged photography. Recently, for the previous two years, the artist has shown his experiments in light sculpture. Using LED-based technology, he created several unique works titled "Light Nebulaes" (2008).
Videos, included in this latest project, are variations on the earlier works from the past seven-eight years, including images from his post-nine-eleven video "Terminal". Ambient music and a flow of corresponding projections are wrapping the aluminum structures of various sizes. Thinking of the theory of chaos and fractal geometry, one could analyze this group of "stones" as a non-existent system; the interaction between them is so minimal that it almost cannot be considered. But the artist empowers this composition by an additional oeuvre made of metal structure - "The Baby". Barely recognizable from the first glance, The Baby is a centerpiece, in a sense of philosophical weight, of the entire installation. This sculpture opens up very different Tim White with an unknown earlier perspective of developing into a versatile artist capable of 3D-video-architectural art projects. All components of the installation - sculpture, light-based piece and video - represent simple dynamic processes that behave very complex when set together.
The symbolism of this show is inclined in its title after Walt Whitman's poem "Visor'd":
A MASK - a perpetual natural disguiser of herself,
Concealing her face, concealing her form,
Changes and transformations every hour, every moment,
Falling upon her even when she sleeps.
Concealed sensitive dependence of contemporary world on a baby (i.e. on a "butterfly effect") lays in the foundation of the latest artwork by the artist. This is one of the 18 solo shows presented simultaneously at the Rupert Ravens Contemporary. More extensively one can see White-Sobieski's light and video works on his website http://www.moving-pictures.us.
Tim White-Sobieski
Visor'd
Video/light/sculpture installation
12 aluminum sculptures, 12-channel video screen projections, dimensions vary, light animation (light panel 60' in diameter); 2007-2009
Rupert Ravens Contemporary
85 Market Street
Newark, NJ 07102
For more information please contact the gallery:
+1 973 353 0660
info ( @ ) rupertravens dot net
OR +1 212 706 9046 PR SAVVA PRESS
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