Scope Hamptons 2005

THREE PLAYERS OF A SUMMER GAME

Proposal for a 3-artist show to be presented at -scopeHamptons, July 15 - 17, 2005

Curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff and Rena Glickman of STEP (1)

Bodies taut and tan…frolicking in the sea…pulsing to the beat…the lushness of a Hamptons summer is as intense and fleeting as youth itself. 

The show we’re proposing for the first edition of scopeHamptons, entitled Three Players of a Summer Game, celebrates the sensuality of summer and the beauty of the human form.

The three selected artists come from vastly different backgrounds but each employs the photographic medium as a tool to celebrate the physicality of the human body and the ways that our corporeality connects us to one another.

American John Grande’s photo-realistic paintings bring to life mannequins that would otherwise be trapped in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue and Macy’s by transporting them into natural and urban landscapes: be it a garden, a sunset, or the skylines of Miami or Paris. 

Norwegian Cecilie Dahl will show some video-stills, C-prints, and a video, from the Clothes for a Summer Hotel series. The recent production of this versatile artist mixes sensual and lush images with a sense of intimacy.  As the artist explains “clothes for a summer hotel explores the nature and identity of a human being, feminism and voyeurism through the notion of oral consumption as it relates to human relations, various foods and sweets, an urge, a taste of and for something with underlying ambiguities”.

Angelo Musco’s entire body of work is driven by personal experience: a delayed birth at the eleventh month due to hormonal dysfunction, and a difficult delivery which has left deep marks both in the artist’s unconscious memories and in his physical body.  Placentas, eggs, nests, genetic structures, natural architectures, a multitude of interwoven human bodies representing containers of life in all possible aspects.  These are some of the recurring images that populate Angelo Musco’s mysterious installations, photographs and videos.  For this exhibition he will show photographs from his ILLA project, presented at the Armory Show in 2004, as well as those from the Amnio and the Nest series.

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