In 2005, Taeshi Murata’s single screen,
4-minute video projection, Monster Movie, left other fur-based miasmic abstractions hiding in their hovels. It’s a straight shot of
adrenalin, full color pulsing around a shimmering beast that
shakes its matted fur to the beat. This video is what Psychedelia
could have been but didn’t rise to, colors like rockets coming at you
and shapes emerging from and sliding back into moving seas of radiant
mud.
Is Murata moving through the history of art? Homestead Grays (below, 2008 still from video via) is pixilated Cubism.
Juan Gris, Book, Pipe and Glasses, 1915
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