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Candice Breitz's 'Queen' - art show; - about Man-donna, featuring fans
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Topic Started: Sep 8 2005, 10:24 AM (754 Views)
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Sep 8 2005, 10:24 AM
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This might actually be worse than "Madonna and Chris.com," I can't decide.
The following comes from this blog entry (Sept 8, 2005) at "Madonna Tribe"- News -
Richard Dorment reports from the Candice Breitz exhibition at White Cube on Telegraph.co.uk:
"Among the critical riff raff who descended on Venice for three days in June, almost every conversation seemed to include some reference to the South African artist, who was showing her work in a group exhibition at the Italian Pavilion. No one I know had ever heard of Candice Breitz before, but we all loved her work.
.... "Queen" is a 30-part video installation in the form of stacked TV monitors that fill a whole wall of the small, windowless gallery.
To make it, Breitz advertised on websites devoted to Madonna for Italian fans so obsessed with the pop star that they know by heart, and are happy to sing in public, all the songs on her greatest-hits album Immaculate Collection.
She then asked each fan to perform alone in front of the camera under identical recording conditions and against identical backdrops.
The visual influence here is Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, a series of 18 very short films in which Warhol asked friends and hangers-on to sit in front of a camera for a few minutes, in much the same way as we sit for our portraits in photo booths.
As the camera rolled and the minutes ticked away, each subject gradually revealed his or her personality to the artist.
Like Warhol, Breitz uses the camera as a neutral recording instrument, not for editing or creating a composition. She does not impose her own feelings or thoughts on her subjects, but allows them to indulge their whims and reveal their deepest selves in any way they wish.
You hear Queen before you see it. Although each singer was filmed and recorded separately, the 30-voice choir begin and end each song at the same time since they are, after all, singing in synch with Madonna, as in karaoke.
Screen caps of dopey Madonna fans from "Queen" art installation (click small pic to view larger one, or use direct links for that purpose):
 direct link IS direct link MT
(Second Blog Entry about "Queen," Sept 8)
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Sep 11 2005, 10:21 PM
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All those people look spastic. They need to stop the Hot Mess!
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I did not want to make a new thread about this, so here it is
(Please note that we have separate threads for art of Madonna by her fans.)
What's the Deal With Madonna? She Refuses to Loan DIA a Painting - What's up with the material girl?
Michael Hodges of The Detroit News writes that Madonna, a native of Metro Detroit, won't loan the Detroit Institute of Arts a seminal painting, Frida Kahlo's "My Birth," for the DIA's upcoming exhibition, "Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit." The exhibit opens March 15.
Hayden Herrera, who wrote the definitive biography of Kahlo, called the painting's absence from the show "a huge omission."
"My Birth" is one of five paintings Kahlo completed in Detroit, of which the DIA secured three. Like Kahlo's "Henry Ford Hospital," which will be in the show, "My Birth" represents a turning point in the young artist's career, when she began using her own body and experience as subject matter, often to shocking effect.
"We tried to get it," said Mark Rosenthal, DIA adjunct curator for contemporary art who organized the show. "You have no idea what we went through. But I can't describe all that."
Madonna's mouthpiece told the News via email: "We will not be commenting on this."
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