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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kley, Elisabeth

Titel

Mystical cosmetics: Oliver Herring, Stephen Dean, Berni Searle

Ist Teil von

• Performing arts journal, 2002-09, Vol.24 (3), p.101-104

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Discusses the presentation of the three works by Oliver Herring, Stephen Dean, and Berni Searle, focusing on the significance of their depiction of the application of pigment to the body. The author comments on the video Pure Sublimation by the American artist Herring at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts in Cleveland, Ohio (13 Sept.-25 Nov. 2001), the film Pulse< /i> by the French artist Dean at Henry Urbach Architecture in New York (15 May-29 June 2001), and the series of digital self-portrait photographs entitled Still by the South African artist Searle at Axis Gallery in New York (11 Sept.-27 Oct. 2001). She describes the figures and colours in the video stills that form Herring's work, explores Dean's documentary about a festival in India, and concludes by studying the ways in which Searle's use of pigment on her body in her nude-self portraits refers to issues of apartheid and race in South Africa.