 Guy Richards Smit Nausea 2 Roebling Hall is very pleased to present "Nausea 2", Guy Richards Smit's porn rock opera, which premiered last December at MoMA. "Nausea 2" is a feature length video project in the tradition of cinematic rock operas. It is the absurdist journey of two adult film stars through crippling doubt, self-discovery, healing and finally - thanks to an ecstatic fashion-filled shopping spree - unconditional love. Smit's carnal, rocking, stylish and hilarious tale doubles as a pop critique of the contemporary art world as it exposes the eternal themes of love and vanity. After achieving stardom in the art world and literary circles, Guy Richards Smit's character Maxi Geil! experiences a physical repulsion to his vocation as an adult film star and is left unable to perform. He calls a press conference to announce his retirement, and there he meets another adult film star, Giselle Thurst (Rebecca Chamberlain), who has experienced a similar physical reaction to her work. They bond but are thwarted in their search for help. Ultimately, they achieve a state of ecstasy and healing by way of high fashion consumption. Written, starring and directed by Guy Richards Smit, "Nausea 2" features the music of Smit's band Maxi Geil! & PlayColt. "Time Out New York" has described the band as a "glammy art-rock group whose sly, tuneful music hearkens back to early Bowie and Roxy Music, with all the camp, drama and fabulousness the description implies. The band is tight and funky, and backing vocalist Rebecca Chamberlain's purr makes us weak in the knees". In addition to Smit and Chamberlain, the supporting cast includes the fantastic Zoe Lister-Jones as a young conflicted starlet and King Lou Fernandez as Maxi Geil's loyal manager. "Nausea 2" features a cameo studded roster of art world notables such as Leo Fitzpatrick (Kids), Delia Brown, Fritz Chesnut, Chris Chiappa, Will Cotton, Tony Matelli, John Pilson, and many others. Also included in the exhibition are a number of Guy Richards Smit's hilarious watercolors that riff on the front pages of The New York Times. With dark humor and painterly panache, Smit evokes an emotional response to current events that is half interior-life diary and half old-fashioned social commentary. The production of "Nausea 2" was partially funded by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. Additional funding was provided by the MAT Charitable Foundation. Clothes supplied by Amarcord; make-up by 3 Custom Color; post-production by Subvoyant; incidental music by David Abir; music produced and recorded by Roger Fife; produced by Ami Armstrong. Guy Richards Smit has previously exhibited his work in, among other venues, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, MOMA's Mediascope, La Bienal de Valencia, the Havana Biennial, the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, the Bass Museum of Art, Aeroplastics (Brussels), and G-Module (Paris). Exhibition: April 16 - May 14, 2005 Gallery hours: Fri-Mon 12 - 6 pm Roebling Hall 606 West 26th Street USA-New York, NY 10001 Telefon +1 212 929 8180 Email info@roeblinghall.com www.roeblinghall.com |
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