Chateau Shatto | PARIS LA

This is the closing weekend for AT THIS STAGE at Chateau Shatto, an exhibition that considers the violent and contaminating “intrusion of images and the assault of narrative structures on consciousness.”*

The show includes paintings and sculptures by Body by Body, Aria Dean, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Hamishi Farah, Parker Ito, and Martine Syms, as well as videos by Chris Kraus (Terrorists in Love, and How to Shoot a Crime, with Sylvère Lotringer), Bunny Rogers (Mandy Piano Solo in Columbine Cafeteria), Sturtevant (Warhol Empire State), and Jordan Wolfson (Con leche).

AT THIS STAGE, through August 12.

CHÂTEAU SHATTO, 406 West Pico (at Grand), downtown Los Angeles.

* chateaushatto.com/exhibition/at-this-stage/

Top: Body by Body, Cafe U.S.A., 2015. High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame. 48 x 36 x 4.75 in / 121.95 x 91.45 x 12.1 cm. Image courtesy Body by Body and Chateau Shatto.

Bottom: Gardar Eide Einarsson, Flagwaste (Stars and Stripes), 2016. Refuse collected from American flag manufacturers. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy Gardar Eide Einarsson and Team Gallery.

Parker Ito’s show at Chateau Shatto, A Little Taste of Cheeto in the Night, is a fully-immersive, claustrophobic, phantasmagoric experience. The artist transformed a vast, multi-roomed warehouse behind the gallery with architectural interventions, punching holes in the walls and ceiling. Double-sided paintings hang from silvery chains and LED light strands, and the floors are haphazardly carpeted in astro-turf and red plush. Custom-made slippers, screen-printed buckets, ceramic figurines and action figures litter the space, sometimes in precise constructions, and at other times lying about in wait for a crushing step. Photos simply don’t do the show justice; go and see it for yourself before it closes on April 26.

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