Register Login. Save Cancel Delete. It includes six newly rendered paintings, all between 8 and 17 meters in length, and specifically adapted to the gallery space of Kunsthalle Zürich.
Also shown are nine new sculptures, a series of drawings and a newly produced full-length feature film. The works shown at Kunsthalle Zürich, as most of Russell's activities, are hard to pin down.
One is overwhelmed by this oeuvre, without being able to quite figure out why similar to Marguerite Duras describing her experience of watching Robert Bresson's film Au hazard Balthazar. They were low and loud, angry and cartoonish, political and pretentious, but obviously they were having fun. By the end of the s, things seemed to have gotten more aggressive and there were reasons for it. The playfulness turned into a cynical game, yet some of BANK's best projects came out of it, notable the legendary Fax-Bak, started in The Bank Service.
So what was this all about? Together, they perform, film, curate, publish, and paint, using strong gestures to celebrate transgressive vocabularies. One of their performances, The Social, was staged at Maccarone Inc. The collection of texts is inspired by Paul Bucks seminal s magazine Curtains. The experience of these works is the equivalent to that of floating in the sun across a lake trailing your hand in the water. All exhibitions are accompanied by texts treating subjects from pizza to Jesus to porn to Marx and questions of retirement.
These texts come as if spoken by one person in different mental states, deeply involved yet disconnected, but linked by a will to always give too much information and not enough. It squats the address of Reena Spaulings Gallery and organizes shows that do or do not exist. This was the strategy of BANK, which ultimately ran out of steam.
