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General Discussion => WHATEVER => Topic started by: Blue Fescue on August 25, 2007, 07:06:12 PM
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Is anybody going to pick this one up/Youtube it?
The picture made it look like him freestyling in front of some waves.
Shaun Gladwell skate DVD worth up to $90,000
A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky at Bondi Beach will be the first digital video artwork to be auctioned in Australia.
The artwork, titled Storm Sequence, by Sydney artist Shaun Gladwell, is estimated by Sotheby's to fetch between $70,000 and $90,000 when auctioned on August 27.
Storm Sequence, which was shot in 2000, shows Gladwell making moves on his skateboard against the backdrop of a stormy ocean.
The action is slowed by 40 per cent, giving the video a poetic appearance.
Gladwell, 34, was born in Auburn and has risen to become one of Australia's most celebrated contemporary artists.
Storm Sequence is currently showing as part of the Venice Biennale in Italy, and Gladwell has shown his work all over the world.
He's come a long way since 2003 when he won the Liverpool City Art Prize for a work under $1000.
Storm Sequence came into being after Sydney collector Peter Fay noticed Gladwell's student work and offered him "a woefully small amount" to go off and make something exciting.
Mr Fay said he was shocked when Gladwell, who was then a painter, came back with a video work, which was filmed by Techa Noble and set to music by Kazumichi Grime.
The video was transferred to DVD.
Four master copies and an artist's proof were made of Storm Sequence.
Because these should never be played, each was accompanied by a "player" copy.
All five sets were signed by Gladwell and presented in boxes he made himself, which is what makes them so valuable.
In 2003, one of the copies was sold by Gladwell's dealer, Sherman Galleries, for $3000.
In 2005, it sold privately for $65,000 and on-sold in 2006 for $85,000.
Gladwell was "the modern-day Whiteley", in that his work reflected our times, art adviser Annette Larkin said.
The auction will be in Melbourne.
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they also come free with volcom jackets
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A FIVE-minute DVD of a lone man skateboarding against an angry sky
lol
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ill wait till someone posts it on youtube...
**cough cough ATMurrell cough**
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Here is a still to entice people to bid.
I didn’t even know he was a skateboarder. I was just transfixed by the beauty of this image of this skater pirouetting in slow motion, with the huge drama of the sea; the seascape behind him this incredible storm at sea. All these were elements of luck; the storm and so forth. And then with the rain falling on the lens of the camera transforming what was a video piece it becomes almost a pointillist, almost an impressionist painting, as the blurring, still with this figure eternally circling almost like an angel or some celestial body ready to return to another void; to another planet; to another world.
And taking its leave in this last gyration, which just goes on, and on, and on. It’s quite mesmeric, quite simple in its dynamic, and yet the poetry and the intensity, and the sense of drama that is captured.
I think it is an extraordinary video. This to me contained all the elements that I just think that great video art holds, and I just feel that in this young artist there is an extraordinary talent.
(http://www.nga.gov.au/HomeSweetHome/Images/LRG/1.jpg)
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up until now i really liked australia....
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hahah
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they also come free with volcom jackets
IGYIIC
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is that really a screenshot? i hope not.
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i got 3 bucks on it tops
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If only you could kook people in real life.
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If only you could kook people in real life.
nah, he'd get gnar'd for those radical cargo pants
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I hope that this gets posted on SkatePerception.
"DUDE. WHAT DID HE SHOOT THAT WITH. A VX2000000000?"
"HAHA HE DIDNT EVEN POST IT IN AN IFRAME WEBSITE WITH A QUICKTIME MONTAGE"
"HIS EXPOSURE WAS OFF ONE THIRD OF HALF OF A HALF OF A CINTEMETER"
"ORANGE TEXT BRO"
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is that really a screenshot? i hope not.
Yeah, that is a screenshot from it. i was thinking about going to sotheby's to see it, they have it showing, but i had to work.
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i really hope there's some kind of titles at the beginning that resemble the newspaper effect from windows movie maker
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I didn’t even know he was a skateboarder. I was just transfixed by the beauty of this image of this skater pirouetting in slow motion, with the huge drama of the sea; the seascape behind him this incredible storm at sea. All these were elements of luck; the storm and so forth. And then with the rain falling on the lens of the camera transforming what was a video piece it becomes almost a pointillist, almost an impressionist painting, as the blurring, still with this figure eternally circling almost like an angel or some celestial body ready to return to another void; to another planet; to another world.
this figure eternally circling almost like an angel or some celestial body ready to return to another void; to another planet; to another world.
(http://www.nga.gov.au/HomeSweetHome/Images/LRG/1.jpg)