FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Takeshi Murata: Escape Spirit VideoSlime
October 19 - November 30, 2007
Ratio 3, 1447 Stevenson Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Opening reception: October 19, 2007, 6-8pm.
Ratio 3 is pleased to present Escape Spirit VideoSlime, a new video by Takeshi Murata with a soundtrack by Robert Beatty, on view from October 19 to November 30, 2007.
Takeshi Murata's new video furthers his exploration into digital abstraction. For this piece, Murata employs existing film footage of nature and chimpanzees, giving the viewer a connection to recognizable images that continuously pulsate and liquefy. The powerful combination of shifting colors and moving fluid shapes offer an intense experience in which the viewer witnesses the possible devolution of a species. This is the U.S. debut of Escape Spirit VideoSlime
Takeshi Murata was born in 1974 in Chicago, IL. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Film/Video/Animation. He has had previous solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (2007), gallery.sora, Tokyo (2007) and The Reliance, London (2007). His work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2007) the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2007), Deitch Projects, New York (2007), Foxy Productions, New York (2007) and Gladstone Gallery, New York (2006). Murata currently lives and works in Saugerties, New York. This is his second solo exhibition with Ratio 3.
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