“After Géricault”
(How Many Preparators Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?)
- Ian Brill, 2009
Premiers Friday December 11th,
as part of “Behind Our Scene” at Space Gallery, Pittsburgh
A one-pass sample. The piece has no beginning or end, and is always different.
Addressing both the “The Raft of the Medusa” and the reutilized premise of “changing a light bulb” this generative work uses modern digital tools and illusions to present the processes and recordings of an artist as an ever-changing image, or painting.
While addressing both the brutality of the Romantic painting and the necessity of fellow laborers to laugh off the harshnesses of life, through the unexpected abstraction of a familiar reality this work invites the viewer to retreat farther into a state of nature to consider our own motives and chosen roles in society.
