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Tim
White-Sobieski (USA)
curator PAM
co-curators Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells
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Tim White-Sobieski is a painter and multimedia artist. He is recognized among
contemporary artists in the fields of photography, video-making and light art.
His work deals with history and philosophy subjects; his staged photographs oen
make references to dramatic world events of the past. His art has been featured
in more than 30 exhibitions in museums and public spaces in the U.S. and Europe.
He frequently participates in international film festivals; his art installations have
been shown in curatorial programs of Bucharest Biennale; Praga Biennale; Photo
Bienal Internacional de Tenerife, Spain; PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Lyon Biennale,
France. He lives in New York and Detroit.
New video work by Tim White-Sobieski is a hypnotic re-creation of the opening section
of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel The Sound and The Fury. Faulkner took his title
from Macbeth: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signiing nothing.
The video is a ravishingly detailed, photo-realistic evocation of what the protagonist’s
disruptive worldview might have looked like. His inability to connect cause and effect,
even when the cause is himself, is most sharply convened in the film.
One of the constant themes of the artist is time; and blur between the past
and the present in this video is resembling an impressionistic painting that at first
seems to lack distinct forms, but watch long enough, and details emerge so accurately
that it becomes finally sharper than any photograph. Here comes a magical opportunity:
to encounter again the artist’s talent in video and to rediscover the thrill of one
of the great achievements of Western literature.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Museum of Contemporary Art Elgiz, TR (group) / 2006 Museo CAC, Centro
de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Spain (solo) / Kunstraum Sylt-Quelle, Rantum-Sylt,
DE (solo) / Museum Wilhelm Hack, Ludwigshafen, DE (group) / 2005 LVMH-Louis
Vuitton, Paris, FR (solo) / 2005 Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, DE (group) /
2004 Museum Domus Artium DA2 Salamanca, ES (solo) / 2003 Museo de Bellas
Artes de Santander, ES (solo) / Museum CGAC (Centro Galego in Santiago de
Compostela A Coruña), ES (group) / Akademie der Künste, DE (group)
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The Sound And The Fury, 2009
video DVD, 16’10”
FOT. T. White-Sobieski