Gary Hill Wall Piece 2000. Single-channel video/sound installation. Video projector, strobe light and strobe controller with steel floor mount, two speakers, one DVD player and one DVD (colour; stereo sound). Reproduced courtesy of the artist and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
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Gary Hill is world-renowned for his bold experiments with moving images.
In this exhibition, he explores the paradoxes and difficulties of the human attempt to communicate. The best known of the works on show, Wall piece, is a high-impact fusion of light, language and body language.
Gary Hill is world-renowned for his bold experiments with moving images, but his body of work is too agile and various to be categorised narrowly as video art.
Regarded as one of the most inventive and important video artists of our time, his works often explore the paradoxes and difficulties of the human attempt to communicate.
The best known of the works in this show, Wall piece, is a high-impact fusion of light, language and body language – while a strobe light flashes in a darkened room, the artist literally throws himself into the act of speech.
Presented with support from The Arts Centre, Christchurch, in association with the St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland.
Exhibition number 830
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Date:
23 May – 23 August 2009 -
Exhibition number:
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