Laurent Grasso, SoundFossil
Paris-based Laurent Grasso was in New York for the opening of his exhibition SoundFossil at Sean Kelly Gallery (through October 23, 2010) and visited the Clocktower for a sit down with host Michael Rush. Grasso likes to really mix it up in videos, sculptures, installations, many of which are inspired by obscure scientific research like the presence of sounds from the Big Bang found infossils. His show includes a neon eclipse, appropriated paintings with wonderfully bizarre additions, and a video of a haunting trip through the woods complete with a horde of swarming bats. But it's the installation, the combination, and the conceptualization that fascinates both men here as they reach to explain and define the intangibles, perceptions, shifting elements in the work.
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Artists in conversation and debate with host Michael Rush, Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. In addition to his career as a museum director, he is an award winning curator, and widely published author and critic. He was Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University from 2005-2009, and Director of the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art from 2000-2004.
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