Microscope welcomes Nick Zedd back to the gallery for an approximately 60-minute screening program of 17 new and recent video works, most of which are world premieres. The legendary former Lower East Side underground artist is visiting from Mexico City where he has lived for the past 7 years.
Among the works making their debut are more than a handful of music videos, a new form for the artist who is best known for his loose narratives often involving amateur actors, transgressive subject matter and complex dialogues. These include “Deathless” (2017), which features Frambuesa Trip and Tim Gendron from The Greys (NYC) and incorporates footage shot inside and outside by a drone camera of the Hotel Virreyes, where Nick Zedd and his family recently became the last holdouts in a showdown with their billionaire landlord, who evicted the residents in order to transform the building into a luxury hotel. Musicians featured in other works are Vente al Diablo, Natalia Ibanez Laria, and #laBAE.
With the exception of “The Death of Muffinhead” (2016) - starring New York artist Muffinhead and Anais Djin in all the roles and shot and edited in Brooklyn, NY - all the works were filmed in various locations in Mexico including Mexico City, Sir Francis James’ surrealist gardens in Xochitla, and the remote village of Icatepec in Guerrero.
Zedd’s early films were screened earlier this year in "New York Film and Video: No Wave-Transgressive” at MoMA in conjunction with the museum's current exhibition “Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in East Village 1978-1983".
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Nick Zedd is a film-maker, painter, writer, actor, political satirist, and a leading figure of the Lower East Side cinematic revolution, the Cinema of Transgression – a term he coined in a manifesto proclaiming “a new generation of filmmakers daring to rip off the stifling straight jackets of film theory in a direct attack on every value system known to man.” Zedd’s films are screened regularly worldwide including and are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). His paintings have exhibited at Microscope Gallery, ADA Gallery, and Pendu Gallery among others.
Full program available at www.microscopegallery.com