Matthew Buckingham Closes At Murray Guy 12/23

Matthew Buckingham "Likeness" closes December 23 at Murray Guy

"What constructs a portrait-or, for that matter, a self? Two cerebral film installations tackle the question. Likeness zooms in on the little dog in Velázquez's painting of the child prince Felipe Prospero, in a projection surrounded by furniture, much of it wrapped in packing blankets. (Is portraiture a form of storage?) The dog's bright eyes gaze out at the viewer, while a voice-over reflects on the painter's unseen subject, in Spanish, with English subtitles. (Is a portrait a translation?) The second installation, Caterina van Hemessen Is Twenty Years Old, combines filmed details of a 1548 self-portrait-the earliest known depiction of an artist at the easel-with backward text, which can be decoded with handheld mirrors. Here Buckingham makes elegantly literal his reflections on the elusive nature of both perception and self."

-The New Yorker

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