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Julien Ceccaldi: Adult Theater
The first US solo museum exhibition of New York City-based artist Julien Ceccaldi (French/Canadian, b. 1987) features a newly commissioned large-scale painting that transforms the first-floor MoMA PS1 galleries at an architectural scale, casting visitors into a distorted episode drawn from the experience of everyday digital subjugation and hyperconsumerism. Ceccaldi exploits techniques common to both the animation studio and the Italian Renaissance, including trompe l鈥檕eil, overlay, and freeze frame.
With a fatalistic and genre-bending style鈥攊nfluenced by his early exposure to anime that aired on France T茅l茅visions in the 1990s, the transgressive sh艒jo manga of the Year 24 group, and the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb鈥�Ceccaldi鈥檚 work amalgamates the discomfort, melodrama, and romance of contemporary social life into shrewdly observed drawing, painting, and sculpture. Despite the smooth circulation promised by slick media technologies, Ceccaldi鈥檚 work maintains a handmade quality that mirrors the conflicting feelings of his characters.
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The first US solo museum exhibition of New York City-based artist Julien Ceccaldi (French/Canadian, b. 1987) features a newly commissioned large-scale painting that transforms the first-floor MoMA PS1 galleries at an architectural scale, casting visitors into a distorted episode drawn from the experience of everyday digital subjugation and hyperconsumerism. Ceccaldi exploits techniques common to both the animation studio and the Italian Renaissance, including trompe l鈥檕eil, overlay, and freeze frame.
With a fatalistic and genre-bending style鈥攊nfluenced by his early exposure to anime that aired on France T茅l茅visions in the 1990s, the transgressive sh艒jo manga of the Year 24 group, and the autobiographical comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb鈥�Ceccaldi鈥檚 work amalgamates the discomfort, melodrama, and romance of contemporary social life into shrewdly observed drawing, painting, and sculpture. Despite the smooth circulation promised by slick media technologies, Ceccaldi鈥檚 work maintains a handmade quality that mirrors the conflicting feelings of his characters.
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