"Los Angeles was chosen for this exhibition because of its reputation as "the city of moving images-the historical and emotional epicentre of global cinema". "This is where visual modernity began: from early silent film and the Golden Age of Hollywood to the digital dream factories of today. It is precisely here that a media art collection like mine, with works dating from the 1960s onwards, encounters its natural counterpart.""
"More than 40 works are on view-some on monitors, others projected onto walls-throughout the labyrinthine theatre. The works were chosen by Kittelmann, who likes to refer to himself as an "editor" rather than a curator, and run the gamut from early motion-picture history (Alice Guy-Blachée and Georges Méliès) to contemporary works by Doug Aitken and Arthur Jafa."
The Julia Stoschek Foundation's first major US exhibition of time-based works opens at the Variety Arts Theater in downtown Los Angeles, a 1924 Italianate building chosen for its symbolic significance as the historical center of global cinema. Curator Udo Kittelmann, who prefers the title "editor," has assembled over 40 works spanning from early cinema pioneers like Alice Guy-Blachée and Georges Méliès to contemporary artists including Doug Aitken and Arthur Jafa. The exhibition features videos, projections, and archival materials displayed throughout the theater's labyrinthine spaces. Los Angeles was selected specifically because it represents the birthplace of visual modernity, from silent film and Hollywood's Golden Age to today's digital media. The show title derives from a 1967 Louis Armstrong song, carrying ironic resonance with its historical context.
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