Erik Wysocan
Erik Wysocan, "Peter Weiss's The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charent
polarizing film, lamps, sign stand, 2010. American standard plug. Sign stand 154 x 65 cm, box 74 x 59 cm.
"Peter Weiss's The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade". Marquee, poster reproduction for the 1967 Czechoslovakian staging of Marat/Sade.
American light bulbs, non functioning.
Provenance
Laurel Gitlen, New York.
Exhibitions
Laurel Gitlen, New York, "In Here", 9 July - 13 August 2010.
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Erik Wysocan makes work that investigates the mechanisms of display and the conditions of visibility. This work is from a series, Peter Weiss The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the inmates of Charenton, Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, Properties and include a video projection and objects that investigate Marats historical representation as a scientist and inventor of the shadowgraph, followed by his role as French revolutionary and then later, reconfigured as the subject of art and theater. Wysocan received an MFA from Columbia University in 2009 and was included in The Perpetual Dialogue at Andrea Rosen in 2010 and In Practice at the Sculpture Center in 2009.
A notable show was Erik Wysocan : The sleep of reason / The dream of reason / El Sueno De La Razon at Bard College in Annandale – on Hudson, NY in 2009.
Other notable shows were at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.
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