Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Währinger Straße 59, 2nd Staircase, 1st Floor, 1090 Wien
19 January - 3 March 2012. Opening on 18 January, 19h.
Works in the Exhibition
Brice Dellsperger (F)
Born in Cannes (France). After studying fine arts for five years in Nice Villa Arson, he moved to Paris where he has lived and worked as a visual artist since 1995, teaching at ENSAD since 2003. Dellsperger's works mainly consist in a video series which counts today 24 films of various length, named "Body Double" after Brian De Palma's 1984 feature film. Dellsperger's works have been exhibited in museum spaces such as MoMA (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), migros museum (Zurich) and widely screened internationally, and are included in a number of prominent public collections including that of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
body double 23 (2007)
7'28",VHS/SD to Digital Betacam – based on "The Black Dahlia" (Brian de Palma)
Body Double 23 is a portrait noir of Elizabeth Short. Doubling a scene from Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia, the video is based on three sequences in which the viewer is placed in the position of a casting director. The work is informed by a certain surrealist aesthetic, and by some of the visual tricks that Man Ray for instance used in his photography, using regular black body make-up on black backgrounds. Unfolding in an unexisting space (cleared of any backgrounds) the screen-test dialogues enhance the girl's solitude, in a moment where Elizabeth Short passes from anonymity to celebrity, from life to death.
body double 14 (1999)
4'19", DV to Digital Betacam – based on "My Own Private Idaho" (Gus Van Sant)
body double 23 (2007)
7'28",VHS/SD to Digital Betacam – based on "The Black Dahlia" (Brian de Palma)
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris
body double 14 (1999)
4'19", DV to Digital Betacam – based on "My Own Private Idaho" (Gus Van Sant)
Courtesy the artist and Air de Paris