Gallo vs. Gallo | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Gallo vs. Gallo | Nabuurs&VanDoorn

Structure is in opposition to a simple combination of elements, a whole formed by phenomena in solidarity, such that each phenomenon depends on the others and can be what it is only in and through its relation with them. Structure then is a whole that contains something more than the simple sum of its parts. When art is offered for aesthetic enjoyment and its formal aspect is appreciated and analyzed, this still remains far from attaining the essential structure, that is, the origin that gives itself in the work of art and remains reserved in it. Aesthetics, then, is unable to think of art according to its proper statute, and so long as man is prisoner of an aesthetic perspective, the essence of art remains closed to him. In this work of art, on two sides of a fence in the center of the gallery, two films are projected from opposite ends of the room. Both films are made by Vincent Gallo at different moments in time. Each of the films projected on opposite sites of the screen represent the aesthetic enjoyment. Both films are now morphed into each other from a single viewpoint, redefining the cinematic as complex spatial experience. Neither side of the screen can be read as front or back; both are interchangeable and therefore, rendered equal. The aesthetic enjoyment is turned into a structure through which we can think of art.