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Damian Moppett: Look! It’s Libby and Roberta struggling
By libby
January 10, 2008 · 4 Comments
Look at Libby and Roberta struggle to understand work by Canadian artist Damian Moppett at Temple Gallery, the latest episode from our ongoing series of gallery visits on video. Check it out, and check out the show, which is definitely worth the time to grapple with unfamiliar, but excellent work.
Our video guru David Kessler captured it all and makes the magic happen. Hey, there’s still time to catch his work up at Bambi Gallery until Jan. 20. We didn’t review it because we love him to death and it’s hard to give the show a credible smooch, which it deserves, given all the connections we have, but do go see it. Here’s a link to David’s popular Shadow World videos. And here’s a link to the archive of all the Look! episodes.
Tags: damian moppett, david kessler, temple gallery
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Readers Comments (4)
I smell SPIN-OFF! “Libby and Roberta say, ‘WTF?’, but in a good way.”
That rhinoceros looking thing in one of Damian Moppett’s paintings is a prehistoric beast called a Brontotherium. They lived in North America, and were dubbed the “thunder beast” by the Sioux tribes in South Dakota. The Eocene period it apparently lived in was during a greenhouse climate change time in the Earth’s history. Perhaps Mr. Moppett is leaving a puzzle piece with this image? Or like you say in the video, perhaps this is just an image that has entered his recent consciousness.
Ha! Brent, great idea for a spin-off. It could be a life-long project : )
And that rhino is a true thing? Well it just goes to show you that this artist mixes it all up and doesn’t really clue you in to whether it’s imaginary or not. Maybe it doesn’t matter–it’s one person’s obsessions exploded on the wall.
I do love knowing about this brontotherium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontotherium
very interesting! Thanks!
Hi, Brent, wtf video productions. I wonder if someone has usurped the url. Well we deserve it.
As for the rhino, I was reading the wikipedia entry and began to wonder as I read if this was real. I’m all worried about what is real, and who has a grasp on it. Maybe wtf is just about right for my current relationship to everything happening everywhere in the art world–and the prehistoric one, too.