The table is set. A blue gingham cloth drapes it, and vases of origami
flowers fashioned from recycled magazines (not coincidentally, tear
sheets from the magazine called "2wice") decorate it.
Gazing down on this fabulous visual feast are nine-foot high photographs
of some of the most famous choreographers and dancers working today
(from the 2002 issue of the award-winning magazine). In keeping
with the picnic party theme, the walls are upholstered in red gingham.
This art installation, called "Picnic,"
currently at the Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery at Lincoln Center’s
Walter Reade Theater through August 1, is the brain child of "2wice"
magazine founder and editor Patsy Tarr and art director Abbott Miller,
whose 2002 issue of the sumptuous semi-annual performance and art
publication inspired the idea for the exhibit.
Witty, edgy, erotic and surprising
by turns, the photographs – by Christian Witkin, Martin Schoeller,
Andrew Eccles and Tony Rinaldo – reveal freshly minted perceptions
of the revered subjects: Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp,
Peter Boal, Stephen Petronio, Karole Armitage and Tom Gold. There
is Mark Morris, who is clad Bacchus-like in a blue gingham suit,
flip-flops on his feet and a daisy between his teeth. His background,
of course, is blue gingham. There is a witty reversing take on Manet’s
"Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe," in which a naked
Jamie Bishton is surrounded by a bevy of formally dressed females
and another unclothed male – on a picnic, of course. There
is a lineup of members of Twyla Tharp Dance with the choreographer
playing peek-a-boo with the camera. The Paul Taylor Dance Company
is seen in a blur of movement while performing Taylor’s classic
biting social commentary, "Cloven Kingdom."
The exhibition is open during daily
film screenings at the Walter Reade Theater, at 165 West 65th Street.
The theater opens at 12:30pm Monday through Friday and one half-hour
before the first screening on Saturday and Sunday. When there are
no evening film screenings, the theater closes at 6pm. Please call
212-875-5600 or visit the Lincoln Center Film Society website at
www.filmlinc.com for exact times of screenings.
"Picnic" is also being shown
at the Institut de Cultura in Barcelona, Spain, from June 18–August
23, 2003.
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Picnic was created by
2wice, the performance and art magazine, in connection with
the New York Video Festival,
a part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
For magazine subscription information, visit www.2wice.org.
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