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SAM FALLS

For his Hammer Project CALIFORNIA FLORA (NATIONAL FOREST CONDENSATION WALL), Sam Falls traveled to each of the nineteen National Forests in California to gather material for his entry-stairway installation.

“Falls covers large canvases with vegetation from the sites he visits and sprinkles them with dry pigments ranging from vibrant blues and bright yellows to more earthy hues, and then leaves them outside, exposed to the environment overnight. The condensation from rain or dew covers the surfaces in a process not unlike that used to create a photogram, requiring exposure over time so that only silhouettes of the flora remain amidst beautiful washes of color”*

 

HAMMER PROJECTS—SAM FALLS, through April 29.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

hammer.ucla.edu/hammer-projects-sam-falls

See: Sam Falls, Kastro, Antiparos (Los Angeles: DoPe Press, 2016).

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Hammer Projects—Sam Falls, installation view. 2017. Image credit: Hammer Museum.

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YURI ANCARANI: ‘LA MALATTIA DEL FERRO’

La malattia del ferro (The disease of iron), Yuri Ancarani’s trilogy of short films, are currently on view at the Hammer Museum. Each film addresses the daily tasks of a specialized profession: marble miners, deep sea divers, and surgeons. Each occupation involves intense focus and isolation from the external world, and each worker adopts a method of communication specific to his trade that only his peers can understand.

“ll Capo” (Excerpt) by Yuri Ancarani – NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.

Ancarani’s keen eye leaves out little, so the viewer is struck by the films’ stunning realism. Every detail comes in clear focus, illuminating the unseen beauty of deep-sea diving pods and Carrera quarries. Even the soft lighting and gleaming instruments of an operating room look like a spaceship through Ancarani’s artful framing.

Though sometimes slow and plodding, the films are visually intoxicating, and communicate a sense of the tremendous patience required in occupying a highly skilled profession where small details could mean the difference between life and death.