Sprüth Magers gallery hosts Argentine artist David Lamelas'"Time as Activity (1969-2017)" a groundbreaking and ongoing series of structural films and videos at their Los Angeles Venue.The work was first conceived in the late 1960s during the early forming days of the now-famous conceptual art movement. Lamelas was an integral part of the movement which he contributed to with his works, “Time as Activity” is one among them. The work has grown in time and in length to accommodate numerous iterations, each one of which is filmed in different cities spanning the entire Europe as well as across the Americas. The presentation that is being held at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles will feature eleven of those films through highlighting both the consistencies as well as the diversity between all of them. The process taken up by the artist to achieve the intended goal is by making the world itself stand out from the rest of the world of time and duration.The exhibition will open with "Time as Activity-Düsseldorf" (1969). It’s the earliest film shot and included in the series, which in Lamelas’s ideas is his first blatantly ‘conceptual work of art.' The film is shot on 16mm for the exhibition in Duesseldorf. The show ensures to establish both the site-specific characteristics of the subsequent films and also the non-narrative structure of the given film. The scenes are illustrated with stationary shots filmed in public squares, in the street corners, near the monuments, and in other metropolitan environments and are matched with its unique intertitles that plainly state the location and length of each of the upcoming sequence like, "Los Angeles (2006)", "St. Gallen (2007)", "New York (2007)", "Buenos Aires (2010)", "Naples and Milan (2013/2014)." The film shot in Madrid, one of the most recent shots titled ‘Madrid (2017)’ connects a chord between Picasso's Guernica and the Victory Arch referring to a Fascist symbol. Among the series one of the most recent work is "Time as Activity Athens - Berlin LIVE," which has created site-best for Documenta 14, on view in Kassel and Athens in 2017.The series of films "Time as Activity" involves in an investigation of the very concept of ‘real time,' through numerous scenes like hurrying in urban activities as well as quiet moments of poetic introspection. Through the montages, Lamelas instigates the viewers’ thought to aware them about their location trapped in time and space.The show is on view from September 7 through October 21, 2017, at 5900 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA.For details, visit: http://www.spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/459Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the scenes from the work of art.
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