SMART Project Space | 1e Constantijn Huygensstraat 20, Amsterdam, +31 (0)20=
427 5951
Friday 19th September, 20.00 hrs. Smart Project Space presents:

ARTISTS PRESENT.
A series in which artists present their work.

Friday September 19th, 20.00 hrs.




Erik van Lieshout



Erik van Lieshout (1968) is one of the most exciting Dutch artists at the m=
oment. Toughness is his trademark throughout his drawings and paintings, bu=
t also in his videos and installations. Urban subculture is the source of V=
an Lieshout's work. He takes his photo material from his direct surrounding=
s, newspapers, comic strips and the street. He reworks this and makes it c=
ompletely his own, a raw idiom. Often his work is explicitly pornographic a=
nd imbued with a sense of violence but also superbly humouristic. Sex and v=
iolence are approached with a lot of pleasure.



Erik Van Lieshout is participating in this years Venice Biennale, present=
ing a video installation entitled Respect that depicts an absurd multicultu=
ral reality in the south of Rotterdam. Respect is shown in a Van Lieshout v=
ersion of Gerrit Rietveld's Schroder House, thus functioning as a comment=
on the Dutch Pavilion, also designed by Rietveld.





Alex Cecchetti



In Alex Cecchetti's universe not only are there heroes against the sky but =
also saints, wrestlers and children, all engaged in a quest for knowledge -=
a mission whose outcome results in questions rather than answers. In his v=
ideo works and drawings, Cecchetti pairs harsh violence with a visionary an=
d poetic aesthetic.



In San Francisco's Trilogy (13' 2001 dvd) Cecchetti plays tribute to St. Fr=
ancis of Assisi, the popular and controversial figure from his homeland, th=
e Italian region of Umbria. The video's three episodes provide a portrait o=
f the life of the Saint by focusing respectively on his childhood struggles=
, the hard clash between pragmatism and spirituality, and the presumed trut=
hfulness of the miracle. What emerges is a complex reality composed of a se=
ries of unresolved conflicts.



UDONTNEEDTOWORRYABOUTMYYOUTH (7' 2002 dvd)
On an endlessly white salt landscape, under a deep blue sky, two characters=

from an old Western tale meet in the middle of a narrow gangway (footbridge)
that ends with an old grimy wooden latrine. The protagonists are a 15 year =
old and a man scarred by time, neither of whom want to let the other go. Th=
e kid makes the first blow and soon they fall off the footbridge and still =
fighting, they end in a puddle of salt. When they awake the next morning, t=
hey are dirty and covered in salt and blood. Whilst sitting by the gangway =
looking around, a third man comes along in a wheelchair and wishing to pass=
them to go to the latrine. They don't want to let him pass, and turn their=
head towards the white landscape. The trigger of a shotgun suddenly arouse=
s their attention. The man in the wheelchair is carrying a large Winchester=
over his shoulder. He's got them covered and at last he can get through an=
d reach the latrine. The episode ends with a scene of the burning latrine, =
which was set alight by the kids and the man. They burn everything, the lat=
rine, the man, the wheelchair and the shotgun. A fire wheel runs all over t=
he salt mine, burning like an ancient sun!

King Head Of Elk (7' 2003 dvd)
50 kids fighting into the woodlands at the ancient game of the tails. There=

will be only one winner in the end. Then images of an empty school.

Location: Smart Cinema
Price: 5.50 Euro
For information please contact Jacco Musper jacco@smartprojectspace.net


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