Douglas Gordon
10 Sep - 10 Oct 2009
A second exhibition by Douglas Gordon, featuring works from the series Self Portrait of You + Me, will be on show at the existing Dvir Gallery space, at 11 Nahum Street.
All during his artistic career, Gordon has referenced several famed artists and film directors, by way of quoting, doubling or mirroring their works in his.
Those include Andy Warhol, who immortalized in equal measures the faces of film stars, celebrities and anonymous figures taken from police files. By ravaging Warhol posters, Gordon does to Warhol’s work just the opposite of what Warhol had effected on his subjects. The posters are torn, burned, stained and mounted on mirrors that reflect the viewer – hence the name of the series.
Gordon calls on us to take part in an iconoclastic act of black magic, in which Warhol’s icons are being dismantled, while his come to life.
All during his artistic career, Gordon has referenced several famed artists and film directors, by way of quoting, doubling or mirroring their works in his.
Those include Andy Warhol, who immortalized in equal measures the faces of film stars, celebrities and anonymous figures taken from police files. By ravaging Warhol posters, Gordon does to Warhol’s work just the opposite of what Warhol had effected on his subjects. The posters are torn, burned, stained and mounted on mirrors that reflect the viewer – hence the name of the series.
Gordon calls on us to take part in an iconoclastic act of black magic, in which Warhol’s icons are being dismantled, while his come to life.