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Saul Becker & Stephen VitielloField Recordings
May 9 – July 6, 2012
Opening Reception
Wednesday, May 9, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
The Horticultural Society of New York is pleased to present Field Recordings, a multimedia exhibition of works by Saul Becker and Stephen Vitiello. The exhibition explores how both artists collect fragments of the natural world and restage them as altered landscapes presented in multimedia sculptures, photographs, video, and drawings.
Field Recordings centers on several collaborative works, which combine Vitiello’s atmospheric sound compositions with Becker’s electroplated wildflower sculptures. The exhibition also includes Becker’s landscape drawings as well as a series of Polaroids and a Super-8 film by Vitiello. Collectively, their work presents a vision of landscapes that are familiar yet alien, acknowledging our current anxiety regarding
the environment while reveling in the beauty
and wildness of the non-human world.
Images: Saul Becker and Stephen Vitiello, Medetative/Vegetative, 2009, electroplated plants, speakers, amplifier, DVD player, and audio soundtrack (14:34), courtesy of the artists; Photo of Stephen Vitiello by Katy McDaniel; Stephen Vitiello, Untitled (Lost Forest No.13 and No.9) (detail), 2007-2010, two Polaroids, 9 ½ x 12 ½ inches (framed), courtesy of the artist and American Contemporary, NY.