![]() He easily moves from the large screen, to the theater, to the gallery exploring new technologies with each work.Īt the heart of Atlas’ work are collaborative relationships, working intimately with friends and artists such as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima/New Humans and most notably Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as in-house videographer for a decade from the early 1970s through 1983. ![]() From his work with choreographer Merce Cunningham in early ’70s to his more contemporary works with the band Antony and The Johnsons, Atlas has consistently challenged himself with new forms, pioneering the use of film with live dance and creating video portraits of NYC’s cultural underground. Charles Atlas has been a pioneering figure in film and video for over four decades, expanding the limits of his medium, while forging a unique aesthetic that transgresses the boundaries of film, art, performance and music. But before there were graduate programs in video art, before there were dedicated media rooms in museums, there was Charles Atlas. Moving colors and sounds pull viewers into darkened spaces where they contemplate films made to work across multiple screens, films that can’t be contained within the traditional theater model. In 2017, Atlas and choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener premiered Tesseract, a new two-part work consisting of a stereoscopic 3D film and dance performance with live cinematic mixing. In September 2019 Atlas will unveil a new commission for Art on theMART, the piece will span across the 2.5 acre river-façade of theMART in Chicago.With video installations now filling every gallery and museum, the moving image has become a ubiquitous refuge for lovers of the ocular spectacle. Atlas’ work is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Art Institute of Chicago San Francisco Museum of Art Tate Modern, London Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich and De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands. In 2017, the Hammer Museum acquired Atlas’ five-channel video installation with sound entitled The Tyranny of Consciousness, which had been recently featured in Viva Arte Viva, the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include The Kitchen, New York the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York De Hallen, Haarlem Bloomberg SPACE, London and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Louis, MO in 1949 he has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. By presenting work which uses performance and video art as an expressive means and research tool, Atlas’ show carries through April 2020 this shared thread which has characterized the exhibition program since the start of the Fondazione.Ītlas was born in St. Charles Atlas, Hail the New Puritan, 1986, 16mm film transferred to video, sound, Duration: 84:54 minutes © Charles Atlas Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.įollowing the exhibitions by Masbedo and Simone Forti, Fondazione ICA Milano continues the focus on investigations related to the themes of the living and the body.
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