Pascual Sisto - March Flog Header.
1 Mar 2008
For this month’s header, I chose LA based artist Pascual Sisto.
The masthead is a still from Sisto’s video No Strings Attached, 2007, currently on view at TELIC Arts Exchange part of the fabulous group exhibition and massive video installation Gravity Art which opened Saturday, March 1st.
From the press release.
__Gravity Art, curated by filmmaker Rene Daalder, is an exhibition that retroactively proposes a genre based on the idea of gravity as a medium. Operating in relation to Daalder’s documentary on Bas Jan Ader, Here is Always Somewhere Else, and his website basjanader.com, this exhibition brings together several generations of conceptual artists through the unlikely, but perfectly obvious conceit of gravity.
(Left image is another still from No Strings Attached. Right image is an installation shot of Gravity Art at TELIC)
Sisto received his MFA from UCLA in 2007 and has shown at the MAK Center and de Soto in LA, Instants Chavirés and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among other (great) spaces.
I discovered Sisto’s work at TELIC for his first solo show with the space, The Impossibility of th Beach, back in 2006. The work on view Push/Pull (my work is your misfortune) 405, 2006, a large two channel video installation (see the images below) really resonated with my newly-established-in-LA self. This impossible artery of cars driving away and to you was a cruel and accurate representation of the city I had landed in. The piece was mesmerizing and cynical. I felt that the artist was using the video medium for its intrinsic qualities, merging time and space into an surreal representation of a simple event.
(Left and middle images from the artist’s website, video stills from Push/Pull (my work is your misfortune) 405. Right image is an installation shot at TELIC from a previous Flog post)
His work will be on view at the Huntington Beach Art Center starting March 8th part of the group exhibition Obsessive compulsive with Gina Han, Charlotte Smith and Sayon Syprasoeuth.
Pascual Sisto, TELIC Arts Exchange
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