NOW SHOWING at Santa Monica’s Gallery KM is Maquette 2011 – Ghosts of the Flash, an exhibition of the nine-year collaboration between British artist Matthew Stokes and his Belgian counterpart Dirk Hendrikx. The gallery is located at 2903 Santa Monica Boulevard in Santa Monica. The show runs through October 15th.
The show features photographs and films created from 1989 through 1998 by Stokes and Hendrikx as part of an art collective and experimental theatre company known as Maquette, which includes photographic prints from 35mm film, ranging in size from one by three to 16 by 12 inches, as well as 11 films, originally recorded on super-8, 16mm and 35mm film, and edited digitally in 2010 and 2011. Seven of the films will be presented on iPads mounted on the gallery walls, along with three larger format projections shown as a triptych on a screen created from an old fur rug, and a fourth projector displaying a series of 250 photographic images.
The exhibition at Gallery KM represents the first time that the performing and visual arts Stokes and Hendrikx created, photographed and filmed over a nine-year period will be presented as a single body of work, fourteen years after Maquette disbanded.
Stokes, who is now based in Los Angeles, described the Gallery KM exhibition as “The culmination of a dream to present all of Maquette’s art in one exhibition. The show is a series of still and moving images that are vehicles for silent dances and visual poems bringing together masks, costumes, sets and performances into compelling individual tableaus.”
Gallery KM opened in Santa Monica, CA in September, 2010, dedicated to exhibiting contemporary Los Angeles artists in a wide range of mediums, and has since expanded programming to include international artists. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 5pm, and by appointment. www.gallerykmLA.com.
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