Displayed on two square-format, translucent screens, each of which can be viewed from both sides, the looped narrative unfolds in side-by-side vignettes that depict events on worlds that are light years apart. Biennale Arte 2019 ... Douglas Stan Television Spots AND Monodramas 1987-1991 - Duration: 7:52. In 1994, Canadian artist Stan Douglas produced the two-channel black and white film installation Der Sandmann in one of these old studios. But rather than let the cinematic doublings leave us in a place of uncertainty mirroring that experienced by Alice—and that of all the Alices trapped in universes where they can never know whether they will be received with sympathy or hostility—Douglas’s work feels less nuanced than these predecessors. Speaking of the cinematic... Douglas is fascinated by film. ... Stan Douglas Wants to Take You to Another Earth. The action on the two screens proceeds alternately in tandem and in parallel, seamlessly moving between two oppositional scenarios of Alice’s reception back on Earth. This new video installation conjures Douglas’s long-standing interests in doubling, alternate histories, and technologies of seeing, through the lens of quantum entanglement and science fiction. In one version, Alice is received compassionately and welcomed home, whereas in the other, she is treated as an outlaw or a potential threat. Flora Yukhnovich: The Venice Paintings an (XR) exhibition of new paintings, The Top 5 Online Exhibitions to see right now, Artist Peter Doig is collaborating with Kim Jones for Dior Men FW21, See You Tomorrow – MA Art and Science Open Studio, Central Saint Martins, UAL, Wandering Intuition, a solo exhibition by leading figurative artist Henrik Aa. In one version, Alice is received compassionately and welcomed home, whereas in the other, she is treated as an outlaw or a potential threat. Alice, a solitary astronaut, is teleported to a distant planet, and so is her double. 16 Wharf Road. Doppelgänger is concurrently on view at David Zwirner, New York, until 22 February 2020. Stan Douglas. The slippage between truth and fiction has been a long-standing preoccupation for the Canadian artist Stan Douglas, whose video installation Doppelgänger traces two parallel timelines, each as seemingly plausible as the other.Set in an alternative present, Doppelgänger is displayed across two square-format, translucent screens … Victoria Miro Gallery. A thread linking Stan Douglas’s work across various media—installation, film, television—is the creation of what he has called “speculative histories.” Take “Scenes from the Blackout” (2017), a series of large photographs on display downstairs at Victoria Miro’s north London outpost. For Scenes from the Blackout, he imagined the physical effects of a total loss of power in present-day New York City and how people would behave in such an emergency. Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. The artist talks 'Star Trek,' Proust, and latest video project 'Doppelgänger.'. But in another, it is bluntly literal. Thank you, your email has been added to the list. Intercut with quasi-abstract passages of colour and light, which nod both to avant-garde cinema as well as the history of space exploration, Doppelgänger presents a nuanced and layered parable that powerfully addresses the slippery notion of objective truth, and the position of the ‘other’ in contemporary society. Image courtesy of the artist; Victoria Miro, London; and David Zwirner, New York. The artist talks 'Star Trek,' Proust, and latest video project 'Doppelgänger.' Doppelgänger, 2019. Doppelgänger is set in an alternative present. Stan Douglas, Doppelgänger, 2019. Stan Douglas, Director: Doppelgänger. United Kingdom. It debuted in the 2019 Venice Biennale, in New York. Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner and Victoria Miro The National Gallery of Canada announced today that Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas will represent Canada at the 59 th Venice Biennale. VIEW ON MAP. Stan Douglas, Doppelgänger (2019) Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro, and David Zwirner. 16 Wharf Road; Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Stan Douglas: Doppelgänger. Late in life Beckett produced a short text called “The Lost Ones,” a schematic description of a cylinder in which “lost bodies” roam to find the partner from which they have been separated. In Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger, action on the two screens proceeds alternately in tandem and in parallel, seamlessly moving between two oppositional scenarios of Alice’s reception back on Earth. Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner and Victoria Miro. Stan Douglas is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver and Los Angeles. About . Opening Reception: Jan 30, 2020. Debuted at La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live in Interesting Times, this ambitious work will be exhibited for the first time in the UK. People Artist Stan Douglas, Whose Engrossing Work Imagines Alternative Histories, Will Represent Canada at the 2021 Venice Biennale. 2019, double-channel video, 26′ The dual-channel videos of Doppelgänger are projected to translucent screens that can be viewed from either side. See available photographs, prints and multiples, and film, video for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs – and more recently theatre productions and other multidisciplinary projects – that … Alice, a solitary astronaut, … Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner and Victoria Miro “The action on the two screens proceeds alternately in tandem and in parallel, seamlessly moving between the two oppositional scenarios of [astronaut] Alice’s reception back on Earth,” says the Victoria Miro Gallery. Stan Douglas is a director and writer, known for Doppelgänger (2019), Klatsassin (2006) and The Secret Agent (2015). A thread linking Stan Douglas’s work across various media—installation, film, television—is the creation of what he has called “speculative histories.” Take “Scenes from the Blackout” (2017), a series of large photographs on display downstairs at Victoria Miro’s north London outpost. Photographs by: Carol Andrewsk David Zwirne r is showing an exhibit Doppelgänger , a video installation by Stan Douglas, on view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York. Part 6 of the informative visual tour through the central exhibition "May You Live in Interesting Times". In the work, upon the launch of a spacecraft, another spacecraft launches in a parallel universe as well. One photograph (Skyline) shows a blacked-out Manhattan skyline; another (Jewels) a hand stealing diamonds. Stan Douglas, the Canadian video artist and photographer, likes to think about when things go awry. Stan Douglas, the Canadian video artist and photographer, likes to think about when things go awry. Image: Stan Douglas, Doppelgänger (installation view), 2019. In Scenes from the Blackout, as in these related series, Douglas juxtaposes images that are filmic in their sweeping overview of what a collectively felt catastrophe might look like, with others that offer intimate glimpses into individual experiences. At the same time, the other screen tells another story: on a planet identical to our earth in every way except that everything is mirrored, another Alice (call her Alice-2) has been cloned and teleported to another spaceship. A panoramic view of an almost entirely blacked-out cityscape is juxtaposed with scenes of individual experience: resourcefulness and various degrees of misbehaviour. Venice Biennale 2019: Giardini 3. This is the premise of his video installation, Doppelgänger, currently on view at David Zwirner in New York and Victoria Miro in London. Stan Douglas. Preis auf Anfrage. Additionally, Victoria Miro will present selected works from Douglas’s photographic series Scenes from the Blackout. Stan Douglas, Doppelgänger (installation view), 2019. Doppelgänger is set in an alternative recent past with futuristic yet analogue technology, where typewritten messages are transmitted in metal boxes. by M. NourbeSe Philip. Douglas intentionally heightens the viewer’s feeling of displacement through a continual sense of reversal and mirroring, both in the form and content of his installation. Stan Douglas. His films and photographs have been included in exhibitions internationally since the early 1980s, including at documenta IX, X and XI (1992, 1997, 2002) and in four Venice Biennales (1990, 2001, 2005 and 2019). The exhibition opens Thursday and runs to Feb. 22. Stan Douglas 31 Jan — 14 Mar 2020 at the Victoria Miro Gallery in London, United Kingdom David Zwirner presents Doppelgänger, a video installation by Stan Douglas, on view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York.Debuted at the 2019 Venice Biennale, May You Live in Interesting Times, this ambitious work is exhibited for the first time in the United States.Doppelgänger is concurrently on view at Victoria Miro, London, opening on January 31. In Doppelgänger, Douglas takes his work to outer space as a double-screen projection shows the journey of a protagonist who … Victoria Miro Gallery. Stan Douglas's work will be on view in the Canada Pavilion at the 59th Biennale di Venezia from May to November 2021. Her race is never mentioned yet is clearly significant: she is the only visibly black person in the piece. Stan Douglas: Doppelgänger 31st January–14th March 2020 Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, Mark Westall is the Founder and Editor of FAD magazineFounder and co-publisher Art of Conversation and founder of the platform @worldoffad. This morning I sat at my kitchen table reading the newspaper as I usually do and suddenly tears came to my eyes. In a formal sense, Doppelgänger is fiendishly complex. Victoria Miro has announced the representation of Flora Yukhnovich. The two Alice clones arrive on opposite earths: Alice-2, arriving on our earth, is quarantined, drugged, and questioned in an interrogation room; Alice-1, arriving on the reverse earth, is welcomed and given medical support. Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs – and more recently theatre productions and other multidisciplinary projects – that investigate the parameters of their medium. 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