Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Luis Gispert
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Thursday Oct 21, 2010 (6pm)
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$10
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“Luis Gispert's You're My Favorite Kind of American at Rhona Hoffman was a standout of last year's fall art season, showcasing the artist's noted hip-hop ornamentation alongside more formal work. One piece in that exhibition, the realist, multi-channel video Réne, a kind of visual working diary of an artist friend of Gispert, screens in tonight's program. Also showing: Smother, a much-praised and vastly more stylized affair, also from 2008. There, sumptuous visuals, lurid melodrama, and street-culture signifiers are the gilded gold overlaying a heap of Freudian squirms. Steven Bauer (Scarface) and Taryn Manning (8 Mile) co-star.”
Stephen Gossett, Flavorpill
In his dramatic photographic tableaux, sculptures, video vignettes, and short films, Miami-New York-based artist and SAIC alumnus Luis Gispert mashes up consumerist pop culture and narco-nouveau riche '80s aesthetics with Freudian nightmares and socio-economic provocation. This evening, Gispert provides an overview of this work in all mediums, including his 2008 film, Smother, and the multi-channel portrait, Réne (2008).
-Siskel Center
