Blockbuster
To everyone that was a 90’s kid: This exhibition (September 11–October 20, 2018) will pull at your heartstrings. At Gagosian’s UES location, Harmony Korine makes art out of what used to be a part of our everyday lives (VHS tapes).
Over ten years ago I heard about a Blockbuster video store going out of business in Nashville. I bought all the videos in the store from them. I always loved the way VHS covers looked. I loved seeing them in long rows. I began to mark over the covers myself and distort the images. I liked the idea of changing the narratives. I liked the idea of turning them into paintings, or maybe they are sculptures now. - Harmony Korine Blockbuster Press Release
Once you know a little bit more about Harmony Korine, you realize the fact he created an art exhibition from VHS tapes isn’t that strange at all. When he’s not showing at one of the best galleries in the world he’s directing and writing screenplays for some of the most famous films (Kids, and Spring Breakers).
While his films tend to have themes of “dark humor and absurdism involved in dysfunctional childhoods, mental disorders, and poverty” - his art has a more childlike, lightness to it.
While his exhibition with Gagosian was rad, he’s collaborated Supreme, on a set of two skate decks with his original artworks in 2011 (could be ever radder)
Gagosian represents Harmony Korine (this wasn’t just a one-off)
Harmony was born in California and raised in Nashville, Tennessee (where he may still live?)
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