Subject: July 4, First Friday, Jonathan Douglas Duran at red-light

red-light
323 Southwest Blvd.






Kansas City, MO 64108
816-421-1484

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July 4, 2008 – July 26, 2008

Opening Reception: July 4, First Friday
                               6:00 pm – 10:00  
Saturday hours: 12:00-5:00 pm.






Or by appointment call: 816-421-1484

"La Vita Nuova"
composed by
Jonathan Douglas Duran
presented by
Kenneth Gentry

"La Vita Nuova" consists of works which restlessly blur the line between the tired associations of medium; aural and physical textures coexisting outside of the accepted constraints willfully hoisted upon what many may call 'style'. To wit: music, photography, painting,film, sculpture and the written word; avatars of human communication, static and evolving, immaterial and tangible, all represented simultaneously through a series of works which will confront the viewer and arouse an active and fervent response. However diverse the choice of mediums may be in any particular piece the overall message remains concrete; eloquent coherence via frenzied incoherence;the inescapable dichotomies of our contemporary psychological zeitgeist.







red-light remarks: I feel like the rather buffoonish Polonius announcing the arrival of the traveling players to Hamlet, mad north-north-west. Polonius goes on to provide a litany of the actor's skills in the traditional genres, as well as a quizzical variety of mixed-genres. "La Vita Nuova" is very much in the vein of the latter.




 Imagine, if you will, Pasolini meets Voltaire, Poe meets Buñuel,Dante meets Rimbaud, Bacon meets Fellini, Dostoyevsky meets Arbus, and so on.



 Be prepared to be discombobulated. K.G.





 

Image Title: Journey To the End of the Night (re-birth)
Photo by: Jonathan Duran



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