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Takeshi Murata (Garage)

11.1. - 23.2.2008

- english version below - Takeshi Murata wurde 1974 in Chicago geboren und lebt und arbeitet in New York. Er studierte Film/Video/Animation an der Rhode Island School of Design. Nach zahlreichen Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen wie Excape Spirit VideoSlime, Ratio 3, San Francisco; Damage Control, gallery.sora, Tokyo, Japan; Black Box: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; wird dies seine erste Präsentation in Wien sein. In der LAYR WUESTENHAGEN GARAGE wird Takeshi Murata´s Video Untitled (Silver) aus dem Jahr 2006 gezeigt, welches nicht nur für die Galerie eine wichtige Arbeit darstellt, um die Arbeit Takeshi Murata´s vorzustellen. „His 2006 piece „Untitled (Silver) - seen in Murata´s first show at Ratio 3 and in "Cosmic Wonder" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is a knockout with its metallic gray footage of horror-film star Barbara Steele floating through a well-appointed goth interior that undergoes Murata´s process of liquefaction. Silver may still be the artist`s benchmark, but these new works reveal he´s got plenty of fuel left in the continually tenuous worlds, both actual and media, that we inhabit." (Glen Helfand, The Real World, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 21-27, 2007) Die Ausstellung wurde realisiert mit der freundlichen Unterstützung der Galerie Ratio 3, San Francisco. Takeshi Murata was born in Chicago, IL, 1974 and lives and works in New York. He studied Film/Video/Animation and graduated in 1997. After various solo and group exhibitions such as Excape Spirit VideoSlime, Ratio 3, San Francisco; Damage Control, gallery.sora, Tokyo, Japan; Black Box: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; this will be his first screening in Vienna. In the LAYR WUESTENHAGEN GARAGE, the video Untitled (Silver) from the year 2006 will be shown, which not only the gallery considers as a very important piece to introduce the work of Takeshi Murata. "His 2006 piece Untitled (Silver) - seen in Murata´s first show at Ratio 3 and in "Cosmic Wonder" at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts . is a knockout, with its metallic gray footage of horror-film star Barbara Steele floating through a well-appointed goth interior that undergoes Murata´s process of liquefaction. Silver may still be the artist`s benchmark, but these new works reveal he´s got plenty of fuel left in the continually tenuous worlds, both actual and media, that we inhabit." (Glen Helfand, The Real World, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 21-27, 2007) The project was realized with the kind support of the Gallery Ratio 3, San Francisco.