Germán Bobe: Dreaming in the Gardens of Love
@ VDB TV
Online
Opening Saturday, September 23rd, from 12AM - 12PM
On view through Tuesday, October 17th
Video Data Bank is pleased to present the free streaming VDB TV program Germán Bobe: Dreaming in the Gardens of Love, in which we highlight selections from the Chilean-born artist’s early video works. The videos are available to stream online through October 17, 2023.
These video works express romantic exuberance painted in the electric vibrancy of cathode rays, as well as longing restraint illuminated in soft sepia-tones and black and white chiaroscuro. The videos are often simultaneously joyfully campy and intensely serious. Bobe mixes religious iconography and mythic imagery with queer sensibilities and classic cinema aesthetics to create beautiful and moving artworks.
Germán Bobe spotlights ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as the human body, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, and Western colonialism. While young, Germán’s family left Pinochet’s Chile and he spent his childhood and adolescence in Libya, Italy, the Netherlands, the United States and Argentina. The works presented here were created around the time of his return to Chile which was then a nation emerging from 17 years of dictatorship. It was a time of exploration and expansion for all the country’s artists.
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