For Douglas's alter-ego, the new scene offered a cathartic respite from urban grittiness in a city on the verge of bankruptcy. The exhibitions will mark the US and UK premieres of the piece. Photography is a medium that despite historical claims to veracity is entrenched in the telling of tales. “Disco Angola” opens tonight David Zwirner, and is on view through April 28th.In May, Douglas will receive the ICP Infinity Award. Victoria Miro Mayfair. Part of the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary celebrations, this exhibition (6 October 2017 – 14 January 2018) features Douglas' Hors-Champs, 1992. ', 'Beneath the film’s retro-futuristic veneer and vibrant passages of colour – a stylistic nod to avant-garde cinema – lies a pressing message for our times.'. In the two-channel video, an astronaut and her doppelgänger are sent to two different planets; one is welcomed, and the other is treated as a potential foe. STAN DOUGLAS at DAVID ZWIRNER, New York. A new immersive digital installation by artist Stan Douglas called Circa 1948 will be open to the public in September at SFU Woodward's. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and film, video for sale and learn about the artist. Information. Canadian photographer and video artist Stan Douglas challenges viewers’ ideas about narrative by creating non-linear, sometimes randomly generated video installations that can continue for days. New York was a city on the verge of bankruptcy and the burgeoning disco scene offers Douglas' protagonist respite from the gritty realities of day-to-day life. Stan Douglas Two Friends, 1975 2012 Not on view Two Friends is part of the series Disco Angola, in which Douglas assumed the role of photojournalist chronicling both the civil war in Angola and the burgeoning underground disco scene of the early 1970s in New York. You will find links at the bottom of all emails we send from our mailing list which allow you to Update your preferences to change the way we contact you, or Unsubscribe if you want to opt out. With an introduction by by Edward Burtynsky and Jane E. Nokes and texts by Robert Bean and Dieter Roelstraete. Victoria Miro does not accept unsolicited artist applications. Fine art photographer Stan Douglas assumes the character of a fictitious photojournalist for his latest body of work, called Disco Angola, now on display at the … 91,4 x 137,2 cm. Conceived of as two distinct installations, each a reflection on aspects of the past year, The... Victoria Miro is delighted to be a member of Reprieve Collective and participate in Reprieve x Vortic with an exhibition of works by Hernan Bas, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Doron Langberg, Grayson... Before contacting or subscribing please read our. In others, props and décor provide clues to the geographic and historic context.In A Luta Continua, 1974 a woman in striking green t-shirt and bell-bottoms stands in front of a wall painted with the flag and logo of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola), one of the key belligerents in the Civil War. On view until 25 September 2016. David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Stan Douglas, on view at 525 West 19th Street. Since he joined the gallery in 1993, Douglas has had ten solo exhibitions, including Midcentury Studio last year, which debuted a project created in the guise of a midtwentieth century press photographer. Something like a computer game or a science fiction style holodeck, it is a large box in which projections of various settings -- including Hogan's Alley in 1948! Coat Check, 1974 par Stan Douglas sur artnet. 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