Anthony Goicolea - TONIGHT!

ANTHONY GOICOLEA

"The Septemberists"

Private Screening & Champagne Reception
Friday, November 9, 2007, 6:30 - 8:00pm (7:00pm screening time - 30 min.)
Lee Jensen Brake Shop - 1333 14th Street NW

Project 4 would like to invite you to a private preview screening of Anthony Goicolea's latest video project, "The Septemberists". A collaboration between Goicolea, musician Sigur Ross and cinematographer Brian Rigney Hubbard, the piece was produced by designer Thom Browne for his Spring/Summer 2007 collection and debuted as part of New York's fashion week. The work has since traveled to Gallery Hyundai in Korea, Sandroni Gallery in Los Angeles and Monte Clark Gallery in Vancouver. It will be shown as part of Project 4's December group exhibition "Chasing Tales" - an exploration of how fantasies, myths and tales have shaped Western Culture.

The Septemberists is a serene narrative revolving around rituals occurring in lush landscapes. The story follows a group of beautiful young men taking part in bucolic rituals of necessity such as picking cotton, shearing sheep and gathering ink from an octopus in a setting deeply romantic and surreal. Goicolea’s work is quite varied, and the exploration of adolescent boyhood is one of the themes he commonly portrays. He is inspired by personal experiences often concerning struggles with social conventions and uses staged self-portraits and artificial settings as expressions of disorientation and dislocation. In both this video and his most current body of work these artificial settings have evolved into sublime and resolute landscapes which feature elements of struggle within them.

Anthony Goicolea lives and works in New York. After receiving a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a BA in Art from the University of Georgia, he continued his studies at Pratt Institute of Art where he received an MFA. Goicolea’s work has been published in two books entitled “Anthony Goicolea: Drawings” (2005) and “Anthony Goicolea” (2003), both published by Twin Palms Press Publishing. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim Museum of Art.