Acclaim Magazine | Fil Rüting

The Australian Magazine Acclaim has posted an interview online of the article featured this issue on the art practice of Fil Rüting. Read more here.

Re:Cut | Fil Rüting + John Pearson @ TAM Last week

RE:CUT
Jan 21 - March 10, 2012

3 Installations by
Mclean Farnstock, Michael Kelly, Fil Rüting

3 curated selections of video including work by:
Chris Coy, Valerie Green, Masood Kamandy, William Kaminski, Zach Kleyn, Owen Kydd, Lisa Madonna, Jesse McLean, John Pearson, Nicole Sloan, Joe Sola

RE:CUT features video artists that play with appropriation, cinema, and the imagined space created within video and film. By deconstruction and re-imagining footage that has already had a life in the world, these artists expand the familiar into new, multi-faceted installations and single-channel videos.

Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
310.618.6340

Tuesday - Saturday
From 11 am - 5 pm
FREE ADMISSION
Closed Sunday, Monday, and all major holidays

Re:Cut | Fil Rüting + John Pearson @ TAM

RE:CUT
Jan 21 - March 10, 2012
Opening reception Saturday, January 21st, 6-9 pm

3 Installations by
Mclean Farnstock, Michael Kelly, Fil Rüting

3 curated selections of video including work by:
Chris Coy, Valerie Green, Masood Kamandy, William Kaminski, Zach Kleyn, Owen Kydd, Lisa Madonna, Jesse McLean, John Pearson, Nicole Sloan, Joe Sola

RE:CUT features video artists that play with appropriation, cinema, and the imagined space created within video and film. By deconstruction and re-imagining footage that has already had a life in the world, these artists expand the familiar into new, multi-faceted installations and single-channel videos.

Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
310.618.6340

Tuesday - Saturday
From 11 am - 5 pm
FREE ADMISSION
Closed Sunday, Monday, and all major holidays

Projections | Romer Young Gallery

PROJECTIONS: Romer Young Gallery

GALLERY OPENS AT 6:00PM / SCREENINGS START @ 6:30PM

THIS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9: PICTURE THIS
Organized by John Pearson and featuring work by Derek Boshier, Judy Fiskin, Kevin Hanley, Doug Henry, Ezra Johnson, Alice Könitz, Kimberli Meyer, John Pearson, Terri Phillips, Museum of Commerce, MRKN PROD, Halsey Rodman, Fil Rüting, Mitchell Syrop. A program of videos that make sense from the conjured associations of images. These videos convey a certain handling and interpretation - overt or subtle - of images structured in time. Many of these videos were created parallel to or out of artists' performance, sculpture, painting, or photography practices. For me these works push and provoke ideas about perception and photography, a photography that embodies both observation and proposition.

Attached is a pdf of the evening’s program.
For more information about the entire Projections series go to the Romer Young website: http://romeryounggallery.com/index2.html

Video Dumbo | Fil Rüting

Fil Rüting will be screening a 7 minute piece "Dreamtime" at DAC.
September 23-25th.
DUMBO ARTS CENTER (DAC)
111 FRONT STREET, STE. 212
BROOKLYN, NY 11201

video_dumbo is the annual festival of international contemporary video art. This year video_dumbo will be held on September 23-25th as part of the 2011 Dumbo Arts Festival. For the past seven years, video_dumbo has been an important exhibition platform for emerging filmmaker and media artists. In our continuing mission to exhibit rarely seen video art, we present a growing selection of international, thought-provoking works to our audience.
http://www.videodumbo.org/

Fil Rüting | Opening WPA

Fil Rüting | AUSTRALIAN
September 3rd - October 2nd, 2011
Opening Friday, September 2nd, 8-10pm

WPA is pleased to announce "AUSTRALIAN",
a new Video Installation by Fil Rüting.

"AUSTRALIAN" consists of two video projections screened on opposing walls. As the title suggests, the work's focus is on the artist's homeland, exclusively sourcing its imagery and sound from the cinema of Australia. The video is the next installment of Rüting's ongoing process he refers to as "Tri Repetaé". "Tri" referring to the human ability to see three channels of color, trichromacy. "Repetaé" referring to meaning affirmed through repetition and context. Rüting uses cinematic sources, wrenching them from their linear format, cutting and shifting time, recomposing imagery in colorful ghost-like forms and figures moving through a stationary camera space. In "AUSTRALIAN", the tri repetaé form explores a compositional narrative focusing on the question of what the term "Australian" means.¹

Themes explored in Rüting's video installation include primitive utopianism, colonialism, gender politics, transgression, the modern condition and spirituality. The artist has subtitled a few segments within the installation, "Nura (Country)", "White Fellas", "Petrol Heads", "Blokes and Sheilas", "The Big Smoke" and "Dreamtime".

The result is a thirty-minute drop into a psychedelic Down Under, filled with wonder, angst, hedonism, transformation and suspense. Sonically abrupt and mesmerizing "AUSTRALIAN" disarms the viewer into a bi-polar space, where iconography and narrative meet to create a poetic identity hidden within the cinematic condition of a unique modern nation.

Gallery hours:
Open 12-6pm, Saturday and Sunday or by appointment.

510 Bernard St, Los Angeles CA 90012

Tableshow + Andrew Hahn | TryHarDer

Some pics from our last show and Andrew's Studio next door on TryHarDer.
Click to view. and here too.

WPA in Knoxville | Screening

Update | Fil Rüting slide show now online

Website now has a slide show of the current exhibiton at WPA online now. Click the image on the home page to see the show.

Fil Rüting | Opening October 24th

Fil Rüting
Tri Repetae - One 24th of a Second

WPA, 510 Bernard St, October 24 - November 16
Opening Reception Saturday, October 24, 7-10pm
Special Guest Band @ 9pm

WPA is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Fil Rüting,
"Tri Repetae - One 24th of a Second".

*Trichromacy, the condition upon which humans perceive color, is a fundamental exploration point in "Tri Repetae". Sampled from iconic film, the videos and prints in this exhibition contain ghost like figures in shades of red, green, blue, moving within a stationary camera space such as a hallway, trash heap, or skate park. These images hint at a sublime subtext within the original sampled narrative releasing the imagery from the restraints of its linear form, by continuously cutting the frame in overlapping time. One 24th of a second is the time in which a single frame of film is seen; these prints as single frames however implicate the multiple frames found in cinematic film. This literal liberation of image and sound from the formal and conceptual constraints of historical linear filmic space succeeds predominantly though this direct relationship to time. Time is represented as historical form, context, and idea. Rüting’s playful reconstructive approach to sampled cinematic imagery implies a sort of visual haiku; instead of three lines of text, we have three colors, three compositions… a tri repetae.

Born in Sydney, Australia, Fil Rüting now lives and works in Los Angeles.

*The human eye contains three types of color receptors (cones), with different absorption spectra. The RGB (red, green, blue) additive color model used in video and other electronic devices, was derived from this trichromatic perception of color.

Gallery open 12-6pm, Thursday - Sunday or by appointment.

WPA | 510 Bernard Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 | +1 213-503-5762