Private Enemy Public Eye: The Work of Bruce Charlesworth - Hardcover

Charlesworth conveys a disorienting vision of the banalities and horrors of everyday life in his offbeat art, mixing mediums of videos, film, "photo-novellas," installations, theater pieces, short fiction. His mini-stories, combining absurdist elements with the borrowed conventions of detective fiction and mass media, are punctuated by sudden catastrophes and springboard leaps into other stories. "Franz Kafka meets Rodney Dangerfield" is how Hagen, former Artforum editor, accurately describes the genre-splicer's eerie universe. Charlesworth's photographs render commonplace objects generic in intensely bright colors, transporting the viewer into a hyperreal realm, where a dark tornado gathers tremendous force over a tiny house, and where a volcano takes on reflected reality in a man's eyeglasses.
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