 "Pillow Talk Prints" (Liza and David), 2002 ink-jet prints 21.6 cm x 28 cm Jonathan Horowitz Pillow Talk Jonathan Horowitz's "Pillow Talk" is an installation centring around the video "It's Magic/Acting the Part: the Biographies of Doris Day and Rock Hudson". The work focuses on the final television reunion between these two actors, when Rock appeared as the first guest on Doris's talk show and was forced to acknowledge that he was dying from AIDS. Extending his focus from the romantic fiction of the Rock and Doris partnership, Horowitz considers the peculiar balance between the public and private lives of stars of the small and large screens and examines the weird world of the celebrity couple. Photographs of over 100 sets of pillows, each bearing the names of more odd-ball partnerships: Dumb and Dumber; Leverne and Shirley; Ben and Jerry. Horowitz highlights the pivotal role romantic couples play in popular culture and assesses the way this has forced people, and in particular gay people, to identify with the most unlikely characters. Ausstellungsdauer: 17.10. - 16.11.2002 Öffnungszeiten: Di-Sa 10 - 18 Uhr Sadie Coles Gallery 35 Heddon Street GB-London W1B 4BP Telefon +44 20 7434 2227 Fax +44 20 7434 2228 www.sadiecoles.com |
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