Dominic Sidhu ( art now )

AN ART SHOW INSPIRED BY BLACK SWAN EXAMINES THE FRAGILE SUBCONSCIOUS

Curator Dominic Sidhu is becoming increasingly recognized for moving works of art from galleries and museums into zones where they are perhaps least expected, like movie screens (most notably for Black Swan) and magazine pages (curating art collaborations for V, VMAN, Vogue, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine). Sidhu’s current group exhibition at Regen Projects, Black Swan, furthers his conceptual impetus in a slightly anachronistic way: he has placed the works by artists he curated for Darren Aronofsky’s newly-minted classic back into a gallery setting.


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In the gallery exhibition, the palette of black, white, and silver found in the artworks in the film, feels as alive, if possibly a little dizzying—the show is underscored by a wall-to-wall mirrored floor by Walead Beshty, which cracks under each gallery viewer’s footstep. “Douglas Gordon created a mirror piece with the words ‘It’s not about you’ engraved on it,” says Sidhu of one of the many outstanding works in the show. “On the opposite lower corner, written backwards, it says, ‘It’s all about you.’ It’s an intense psychological experience to see your reflection and read these mantras, while standing on Walead Beshty’s mirrored floor, where your reflection is literally cracking and fragmenting beneath you as you walk.”

http://www.vmagazine.com/2011/04/pas-de-deux/

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