This coming May, Videotage is proud to present American video artist and filmmaker, Reynold Reynolds in his first Solo Show in Hong Kong.

Reynold Reynolds is one of the most daring and explorative experimental filmmakers to be seen in recent years within America. Preferring to use a 16mm and Super 8mm film to shoot, his works are normally considered as experimental and investigative towards the human experience.

“The Ability of the artist to explore and manipulate a delicate balance between different functions of mind such as memory, voluntary, and involuntary actions, delicately approaches an untouchable border line between space and time.”

Curator Lara Pan

The solo show will feature five works; ‘The Drowning Room’, ‘Burn’ and ‘Secret Trilogy’. The first two works presents us a world where the actors are for a while, living in a moment of cinematographic “limbo”. “Secret Trilogy” features a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life. This trilogy is comprised of “Secret Machine”, “Secret Life”, and “Six Easy Pieces”. Imagery of this trilogy has been fragmented by a mysterious process of creation inspired by the images of life breaking through regular flow of time, describing mystery of the strange forces of existence.

Curator of the solo exhibition, Lara Pan, will be at the opening reception providing a short sharing session of the exhibition and the artist’s works.

This is the first time VMAC (Video Media Archive Collection) invites a guest curator to curate a solo exhibition in Videotage.

The Artist

Reynold Reynolds
Reynold Reynolds was born in 1966 in Central Alaska. During his undergraduate schooling at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Reynolds studied Physics receiving a Bachelor’s degree under the professorship of Carl Wieman (Physics Nobel Laureate 2001). Changing his focus to studio art he remained two more years in Boulder to study under experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage. After moving to New York City Reynolds completed an M.F.A. at the School of Visual Arts.

Influenced early on by philosophy and science, and working primarily with 16mm as an art medium, he has developed a film grammar based on transformation, consumption and decay. Detailed evolving symbols and allusive references create a powerful pictorial language based on Reynolds’ analytical point of view. His depiction of people often makes us aware of the small frames we use to understand reality. By subtly altering the regular conditions of life and watching their effects, he transfers the experimental methods of science to filmmaking, where he frames reality in his laboratory and changes one variable at a time to reveal an underlying causality.

The Curator

Lara Pan
Lara Pan is a freelance curator, art critic, and contributing writer for Art Pulse Magazine based in New York. She worked at the SKC Gallery in Belgrade from 1989 and 1991. Lara Pan was exhibition curator of Torre by Wim Delvoye at Peggy Guggenheim Museum Collection coinciding with the Venice Biennale (2009); among other shows she has curated are Pandora’s Sound Box for Performa, New York (2009); Braco Dimitrijevic (retrospective), White Box, NYC (2011); and When the Fairy Tale Never Ends for Ford Project, NYC (2011). In 2005, Lara Pan founded The New Art Project, a curatorial project with a main interest to find and innovate the different contemporary methods of the spatial interventions between several types of artistic supports and their habitat.

Opening Reception: 17 May 2012, 15:00 － 20:00
Exhibition Period: 18 May － 24 June 2012 (closes on Mondays and public holidays)
Opening Hour: 12:00 － 19:00
Venue: Videotage