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The Guy Debord Show, WIllIAM ANtHoNy and tHAtCHer KeAtS,
New General Catalog Christopher Henry Gallery
What, pray tell, would Mr Debord have thought Always nice to discover new galleries, and
of New General Catalog’s exhibition, which, in this one happens to be in a particularly
truth, was a programme of performances, charming old church that has been beautifully
conducted locally and abroad and aired nightly renovated by its current occupants. For its
via the gallery’s website? And how, heaven two-person inaugural show, the gallery showed
help us, would he have reacted to the following: a wide selection of works by the collector of
that after having given the Catalog’s website odd historical facts and artworld satirist
an initial perusal a week ago, I today returned William Anthony as well as a series of black-
to find the virtual equivalent of a ghost town and-white photographs by thatcher Keats. Keats
– a series of automatic relays that ultimately began as a printer for larry Clark and, like
dumped me at a disapproving search engine? I Clark, is interested in all manner of Americana.
honestly haven’t the foggiest: some thinkers In one picture we see a kind of parade with
are best left in their time; and some feet Native Americans dressed in costume waving a
firmly planted on the ground. big flag of John Wayne’s face, seemingly
unaware of the irony. other images of kids
shooting guns in the desert, getting stoned
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are competent records of rural America.
Anthony’s drawings are especially charming,
and in the fantastic Hamiltonian (2005), we
get a sendup of richard Hamilton’s illustrious
collage Just What Is It… (1956) scrawled in
Anthony’s signature style (which recalls Beavis
& Butthead).
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BrIAN Belott Swirly Music, Canada
Brian Belott makes paintings on Plexiglas using
things like Day-Glo chalkboard paint, glitter,
foil, spray paint. His new body of work
incorporates these elements with sculpture,
installation and sound. the first thing one
encounters is TV and TV, Throw in a Fireplace
Too (2007), a pair of monitors resting on faux-
plaster plinths. It looks as if Belott has
compiled, and recorded onto analogue video,
the lead-ins to Saturday-night movie slots
from the 1970s. At other times one of the
monitors shows a loop of a log fireplace. Atop
each monitor are digital picture frames that
present a slideshow of tVs in various domestic
environments. In a separate gallery, Bellot
has created an installation with paintings,
homemade speakers mounted to the wall that
play swooning casino music and a cardboard
wall sconce running the circumference of the
gallery: wooden clotheslines and door keys
arranged to create a kind of piano keyboard.
Altogether Bellot has created a fun show of
original-looking work.
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