John Oswald
N.b. Version française disponible sous peu.
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John Oswald, Sketches pour Jacko Lantern #2, 2000 - 05, DVD unique pour oeuvre en cours de réalisation pour écran, durée : boucle sans fin, $4000 (écran en sus) |
John Oswald, Sketches pour Jacko Lantern #2, 2000 - 05 (détail) |
The Jacko in John Oswald's chronophotic plasma image Sketches for Jacko Lantern 2 (which he calls an electron drawing) is indeed the famous singer, notorious romantic, and face shifter, currently on trial by the American justice system, but already either condemned or sanctified by everyone else. He is represented in Oswald's ever-changing image by his teen and recent visages, combined with his similarly altered and now-almost-equally-disparaged sister, as well as several other iconic faces which may have served as models for Jacko's transformation.
This hydra construct, mounted on a similarly amorphous body, combines photographed, painted and sculpted-marble elements, including references to the iconography of the impaled Saint Sebastian, Michelangelo's David as well as his Dying Slave, and the Venus deMilo. The precursor to Jacko Lantern is Janéad O'Jakriel, another chronophotic which was created for a plasma screen, and first shown at the Hayward Gallery in London England as part of Sonic Boom in 2001. Janéad consists of a gradual transformation of a 1932 photo of a nude man by George Platt-Lynes into a remarkably similar pose by Janet Jackson for a 1993 publicity photo, combined with a filigree of the features of various British rock stars.
But the Janet/Michael resemblances, their transformational appearances, and connections to historic imagery, as well as the graphic quality of Oswald's technique of morphing through varying the transparency of superimposed images, naturally led to further exploration of this hermaphroditic figure. Sketches for Jacko Lantern 2 is an iteration of a work-in-progress.
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John Oswald, Crowd of Souls (version 7), 2001, épreuve lambda sous plexiglass d'une série de variations uniques, 122 x 289.5 cm, collection de l'artiste. |
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Version 10, (2005), 122 x 289.5 cm or 91.4 x 183 cm, $7500
L'artiste offre aussi de personnaliser l'épreuve sur commande ($10,000 et plus)
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John Oswald, Cadavre Exquis, 1997, épreuve lambda d'arrêts sur image vidéo, 267 x 30.5 cm, $3000, édition of 5, deux disponibles. |
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John Oswald, Distinctions B de Jacko Lantern, 2004, épreuve lambda sous plexiglass, 106.5 x 58.5 cm, $1,500, édition of 5. (Il existe trois variations de cette oeuvre en cours de réalisation.) |
John Oswald, Distinctions E de Jacko Lantern, 2004, épreuve lambda sous plexiglass, 106.5 x 58.5 cm, $1,500, édition of 5. (Il existe trois variations de cette oeuvre en cours de réalisation.) | John Oswald, Distinctions F de Jacko Lantern, 2004, épreuve lambda sous plexiglass, 106.5 x 58.5 cm, $1,500, édition of 5. (Il existe trois variations de cette oeuvre en cours de réalisation.) |
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John Oswald, Twist, 2000, épreuve lambda sous plexiglass, 56 x 183 cm, 2/5 d'une édition de 5, $2,500. En prêt de la collection Orthoconcept inc |