You probably have at least one friend who is completely obsessed with the art of Marnie Weber. Her approach to creating the “total work of art”—which includes but is not limited to painting, sculpture, music, myth-making, live performance, film, video, photography, collage, set design, installation, costume, extreme makeup, excellent wigs, prosthetics, puppets, and witchcraft —has beguiled and piqued audiences for decades. Her dark, punk-infused humor, fearless embrace of eccentric feminine power archetypes from ghostly cowgirls to sorceresses of alchemy, and willingness to go, as they say, all the way there, combine in tropes of avant-garde theater and tableaux with gut-punch viscerality and a strange beauty that is anything but pretty. Weber’s work is currently on view at ArtCenter as part of Cantos of the Sibylline Sisterhood, an exhibition featuring artists who, “use science fiction, fantasy, spirituality and mythology as grounds for the investigation of identity and agency.”
Read the full story at our sister paper, L.A. Weekly.
The post Meet Gesamkunstwerk Artist Marnie Weber appeared first on The Village Voice.
0 Commentaires