Graham Gussin: Photomontage for Fall (7,200–1) 1996–2000		Organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Adapted for the Goldie paley Gallery by Jeremiah Misfeldt Sept. 13–Oct. 21, 2001 Goldie Paley Gallery Moore College of Art and Design 20th Street & The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Opening Reception: Sponsored by SOMA Friday, Sept. 28 6:30–8:00 pm Lecture by the artist Sans Soleil screening Links for Graham Gussin Links for Chris Marker The Goldie Paley Gallery is pleased to present “Graham Gussin: States of Mind.” Working primarily with film and video projection installations, Gussin (b. 1960, London) creates situations that examine our perception of the real and its relationship to imagined experience. His use of digital media simultaneously evokes Romantic landscape painting and science fiction films. Gussin takes from each the aesthetic of ideal, surreal, or constructed landscapes, as well as the ability to disorient time and place. The exhibition features Fall (7,200–1), (1996–2000), a computer-generated projection and Beginning and Ending at the Same Time (Horizontal Movie) (2001), a new video created for an exhibition at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. In each, viewers contemplate what is real and what is simulated in the images and experiences presented. The installation of Fall (7,200–1) is a filmed image of a lake projected large-scale in the gallery. The sound of wind crossing the surface of water induces an almost unnatural sense of calm. Referring directly to the moment in Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth when a space traveler crashes spectacularly into a remote lake, Gussin has digitally created a “splash” but yields control of its timing to the random generation of digits by a computer. This results in only a 1-in-7200 chance of witnessing the event. On average, the splash will occur once every two hours. Beginning and Ending at the Same Time (Horizontal Movie) challenges viewers’ ability to locate themselves in a definable place. A pair of filmed images, side by side, one moving from wide-angle to zoom and the other in reverse—at first glance seemingly unrelated—reveal themselves to be operating in parallel as the receding image momentarily resembles the advancing one in the adjacent projection. The filmed scenes are in fact identical; yet, any real possibility of completely comprehending either is denied as, instead, the videos become a series of expanding and contracting spaces that dissolve on either side of the viewer. Gussin’s work has recently been shown at Tate Britain, London; Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark; media_city seoul 2000, South Korea; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.  (Return to top) Runningtime The presentation by artist Graham Gussin features projected excerpts from his video Infalling Material (1998). Gussin will discuss his current work, including the installations on view in the Goldie Paley Gallery. Friday, Sept. 28, 5:30–6:30 pm prior to the opening reception Moore Auditorium, admission free Sans Soleil directed by Chris Marker. This uniquely postmodern cinematic essay of quiet beauty explores relationships between memory and experience with a sensitively realized pastiche of images, language, and ideas. (1982, Screened on video) Thursday, Oct. 4, 7:00 pm Moore auditorium and Atrium, admission free Links for Graham Gussin Galerie Chantal Crousel: Biography, Bibliography, Gallery Exhibitions, Selected Works Galerie Chantal Crousel: “Unspecified Space” by Jeremy Millar Aarhus Kunstmuseum: “Spill” by Jeremy Millar Links for Chris Marker Filmography, Bibliography, Essay Essay on Sans Soleil by Gonzalo de Lucas  (Return to top)
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