Exhibition
Double Down
Two Visions of Vegas
September 18, 2008–January 4, 2009
Half dream, half nightmare, Las Vegas captures a distinctively American mix of gumption and excess. Double Down presents a portrait of the city’s spectacular environment through two recent video works, Olivo Barbieri’s site specific_LAS VEGAS 05 and Stephen Dean’s No More Bets. Barbieri films Las Vegas from a helicopter, using a tilt-focus lens to render objects out of scale, transforming massive landmarks into souvenir-size miniatures. Dean’s film draws us into the city’s luminous signs, screens, and surfaces, abstracting its visual excess to reveal beautiful, unexpected patterns of color and light.
This exhibition is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
