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Heavyweight
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Bro
Look at the music, listen to the painting
Exhibition: From
January 13 to February 11, 2001
 
With this exhibition Heavyweight is
moving into phase two of the “live painting project,” which places
club culture inspired ideas into a complete environment / in situ installation.
The dynamic movement of music through a room and its peoples serve as a
map for visual applications and audio details. The space is a collage of
graphic and musical influences from underground urban cultures; material
assembled from last year travels of the Heavyweight Art Installation.
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Whereas the structure
of the creative process within the “live painting” context
announces itself in the spirit of the moment and
is realized within a
DJ’s three hour set, the OBORO installation presents
the artists’ interpretations of their musical
relationships within these club settings.
What happens when the painting bleeds out of the frame?
When the art world and club culture combine? When a
space becomes transformed into an idealistic environment
of sound and vision?
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Production House was formed in the spring of 1998 in
Montréal
by Tyler Gibney and Gene Starship out of the collaborative
efforts of a group of like-minded artists and designers
to create a vehicle for their art and design work. Drawing
from the urban environment, Heavyweight developed a mix-blend
of styles and skills accumulated from a free association
of intuitive interests—peripheral influences included
rare groove album covers, Japanese hyper-pop styles, dub
soundscapes, graffiti burns, skate graphics and turntable
culture. Heavyweight have shown the 2000 Phase One: 1999
North American Tour, Live Painting Series at the Saidye
Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montréal and at
the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art in Toronto. |
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