Solo Show
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago
Feb 10 – March 10, 2012
Revolution – special installation
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Oct 2012
Essay by J. Susan Isaacs, Ph.D.
Curator, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
| For immediate release | March 9 2010 |
(San Antonio, TX)—Inaugurating the McNay's new program of video projected in the Octagon are three works from Chicago-based Ben Whitehouse's Revolution: Still Motion series: Revolution: Apples and Grapes; Revolution: Basket of Apples; Revolution: Bowl of Fruit.
Each of these high-definition digital videos captures, from a fixed camera, everything that occurs in the still-life composition for a 24-hour period-one revolution of the planet. Viewed in real time, every movement, sound, and shift in light appears over 68,400 consecutive seconds. In Whitehouse's three works, the subjects evolve in dynamic and ever-changing relationships to the environment and in response to the moment-to-moment conditions of the daylight/streetlight cycle to which they were subjected. McNay Chief Curator René Barilleaux commented on having Ben Whitehouse's video series at the museum: "These still-life videos are 21st-century century companions to the McNay's recently acquired still-life painting by Impressionist Renoir."
Image: Ben Whitehouse, Revolution: Bowl of Fruit, 24 hours, 08.05.07. High-definition video shown in real time.
Built by artist and educator Marion Koogler McNay in the 1920s, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style residence opened as Texas's first museum of modern art in 1954. Today more than 100,000 visitors a year enjoy works by modern masters including Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In June 2008, the museum opened the 45,000-square-foot Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions designed by internationally renowned French architect Jean-Paul Viguier. Nearly doubling the McNay's exhibition space, the Stieren Center includes three separate outdoor sculpture galleries.
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