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| DIRECTOR MIKE PLANTE HERE IN PERSON!! After the moment of the Gunfight at the OK Corral in late 1881, Wyatt Earp became famous in his own time. He was already known within the Western territories as a tough lawman. The gunfight represented the epitome of what the wild west stood for: good guys against bad guys in a thrilling duel. The real event was 30 seconds long. The motivations behind it have complicated details. But Wyatt wanted us to forget all that. He was never shot in a gunfight and lived into old age. By chance, at a championship boxing match at the turn of the century, he saw the power of cinema in action. He decided he could rewrite history through the magic of movies, hanging out in Hollywood in the 1920s to try to get a movie made about his life. And it actually worked.The Western theme is set by a rousing half-hour of classic 16mm C/W tunes, from Gene Autry to Elvis Presley, from Tex Ritter to Spike Jones. $8.88 |
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Other Cinema: PSYCHO-GEO3; SOUTHWEST
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Mário Pires Cordeiro: “Echoes”
April 1 – 29, 2022
ATA Window Gallery
The Echoes series consists of fractal-like forms painted on plywood. Multi-surface shapes are reimagined and rendered on a single plane, whilst exploring the dimensionality of the larger installation space. Smaller framed artworks from the Amplification series are affixed onto these new colorscapes. The palette is a nod to recent interior design trends, intermixed with found paints from renovated Victorian homes—an embrace of contemporary and historic aesthetics in the Bay Area landscape. The Echoes series was presented at Minnesota Street Project’s Staging Gallery and ATA Gallery on Valencia Street in San Francisco’s Mission District.
The Echoes series is on view at ATA Gallery’s window space on Valencia Street until April 29th. This body of work consists of energetic, fractal-like forms painted on plywood, reimagining three-dimensional shapes on a single plane. The artworks, suspended from four surfaces of the installation space, integrate smaller framed pieces from the Amplification series into their larger colorscapes. This palette is a nod to contemporary interior design trends, intermixed with found paints from historic Victorian homes.
ARTWORK TITLE
SF No. 63, Echoes
ARTWORK DETAILS
SF No. 63, Echoes Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4, Amplification series, plywood, house paint, color sample cards, graphic tape, Canson millimeter paper and customized frames, 2017 – 2022
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Portuguese-American artist Mário Pires Cordeiro experiments with media and color as he explores the interaction between art and design, with a larger intention to comment on the interwoven relationship between visual art and functional objects. His practice is deeply rooted in the theme of color—unpacking the symbolic and cultural meanings imposed on it in contemporary society by sourcing colors from trends and design forecasts as well as from particular environments or publications.
Born and raised in Portugal, Pires Cordeiro received his B.A. in Fine Art Painting from Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa before moving to the United Kingdom to pursue further studies. An awardee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant, Pires Cordeiro earned an M.F.A. in Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London, where he later pursued a PHD as well.
He exhibited internationally and collaborated in different countries such as Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Over the course of his thirteen years in London, he was awarded the Arts Council England Grant, the Arts Council England Awards for Artists prize and the European Leonardo d’ Vinci Grant Award. His work has been exhibited in museums, art fairs, galleries, independent art projects, and commercial spaces. Pires Cordeiro regularly collaborates with architects, designers, writers, musicians and scholars. He moved to San Francisco and established MPC Studio in 2015.
CONTACT DETAILS AND INQUIRES
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Other Cinema: OPTRONICA2; STEREOSCOPY
McLAUGHLIN + BLOOMBERG + SNIDER + The SF Earthquake and Firestorm of 1906 was one of the first natural disasters to create a true media frenzy. On the (almost) anniversary of the ’06 Quake, we are spectacularly pleased to have back the literally eye-popping 3-D projections of the Bay Area‘s own Pad McLaughlin, this time with fellow stereo superstar Bob Bloomberg!! These two masters offer a full 40 amazing minutes of the ’06 and ’89 temblors, true history lessons as well as delirious visual thrills. Our second half releases a riot of 3-D formats, from a half-dozen artistes: Bernal Heights media-queen Greta Snider shares her Unfinished Business from Ancestors, unsettled ghost visions made from phytograms and found footage, while Hy Hirsch provides a post-mortem peek at Come Closer. PLUS OC faves John Warren, Rich Pell, Pete Smith, and even the Three Stooges. Come early for the free wine and anaglyph visit to a Viewmaster factory!
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