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Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas | Event Type: | Exhibitions | | | | Company: | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | | Dates: | Sep 18 2008 - Jan 04 2009 | | Location: | San Francisco, CA | | Address: | SFMOMA,
151 Third Street (btwn Mission & Howard Streets) ,
San Francisco,
CA , 94103 | | | | Industry: | DES | | Posted By: | UP world | | Reply: | Send Message | | | | Description: | This exhibition presents a complex portrait of America's most spectacular urban environment — and fastest growing city — through the juxtaposition of two recent films: Olivo Barbieri's site specific_Las Vegas 05 and Stephen Dean's No More Bets. Barbieri films Las Vegas from a helicopter, using a tilt-focus lens that renders objects out of scale, transforming the city's iconic landmarks into toy-like simulacra. Beginning in the desert, emphasizing the city's isolation as well as its antipathy for empty spaces and blank surfaces; Barbieri's camera travels along the outskirts of the city before arriving at its pulsating nerve center, the Las Vegas Strip. In No More Bets, Dean homes in on the luminous and colorful signs, screens, and surfaces that make up Las Vegas, abstracting the visual excess and revealing beautiful, unexpected patterns within the city’s semiotic jumble. The two works will be shown on opposing walls, sequentially.
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