In honor of its new exhibition art/tapes/22, the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach hosted a gallery talk on Sept. 16 with Alice Hutchison and artist Simone Forti.
Forti, 73, a former dancer, discussed the
inspiration for the dance movements she performs in on of the art videos in the exhibit.Forti had an apartment near the zoo when she lived in Rome for two years and it was then that her interest in the animals' movements fueled her creative desire to experiment with those naturalistic and primal movements.
"As a dancer, I was interested in how my body moved - the vertebrae."
"There's a beautiful sense of frailty," Forti said of the segments of film in which she appears nude.
The exhibit features the works of various artists displayed on a range of equipment including televisions from the 1980s to the present.
It also marks the first time that artist Daniel Buren's 1974 video installation appears in its newly restored version.
art/tapes/22, a video production company, produced film art in Florence, Italy from 1973 to 1976.
Forti became involved with art/tapes/22 when she met and began working with Charlemagne Palestine, one of the artists who contributed to the visual media exhibit.
The exhibit came to CSULB because Bill Viola, who was technical director of the art/tapes/22 studio from 1974 to 1976, is based in Long Beach.
art/tapes/22 runs from Sept. 4 through Oct. 19, 2008 at the University Art Museum.
"There's a beautiful sense of frailty," Forti said of the segments of film in which she appears nude.
The exhibit features the works of various artists displayed on a range of equipment including televisions from the 1980s to the present.
It also marks the first time that artist Daniel Buren's 1974 video installation appears in its newly restored version.
art/tapes/22, a video production company, produced film art in Florence, Italy from 1973 to 1976.
Forti became involved with art/tapes/22 when she met and began working with Charlemagne Palestine, one of the artists who contributed to the visual media exhibit.
The exhibit came to CSULB because Bill Viola, who was technical director of the art/tapes/22 studio from 1974 to 1976, is based in Long Beach.
art/tapes/22 runs from Sept. 4 through Oct. 19, 2008 at the University Art Museum.
