Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock

Palimpsests

March 25 – May 1, 2005

Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, March 25, 6-9PM

Gigantic ArtSpace proudly presents Palimpsests, Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock's debut solo exhibition. Apicella-Hitchcock's work investigates the mediums of film and photography by way of “straightforward” expeditions through cinematic and physical spaces. These voyages, or gestures, are ostensibly uncomplicated – accessible through their usage of narrative cinema; nevertheless, their ultimate significance is often more elusive. One must allegorically make the journey from one place to another, as the artist does, to perceive the possible levels on which the pieces function. This body of work demonstrates Apicella-Hitchcock’s abilities as a visual storyteller, as he transforms even the most banal minutiae of the films' story lines into rich examples of cinematic palimpsests (documents that have been written over) prompting us to acknowledge what meaning those films held for us once, and what they may mean for us now.

“My idea of a piece of sculpture is a road. That is, a road doesn’t reveal itself at any particular point or from any particular point. Roads appear and disappear… we don’t have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.”  – Carl Andre, as quoted in “My idea of a piece of sculpture” by Lucy R. Lippard in Overlay, Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock is a New York City-based photographer and multimedia artist. He has exhibited at the Nuart Scandinavian Art Festival in Stavanger, Norway; the Kunsthalle Exnergasse Weerkstaten in Vienna, Austria; Smack Mellon Studios in Brooklyn; and the Sculpture Center in Queens. He has lectured about his work at Harvard University, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was a resident in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s WorldViews studio residency program at the World Trade Center.