Jan 17th 2009: “she told Dino she’d been thinking about sex”
| January 18, 2009 3:00 pm | to | January 28, 2009 11:59 pm |
Project One Gallery Presents:
she told Dino she’d been thinking about sex
DINO DINCO : FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY & OBJECTS
curated by Brooke Waterhouse
opening reception: wednesday 1.28.09 7pm
closing party: wednesday 2.18.09 7pm
Los Angeles-based artist Dino Dinco returns to San Francisco with a mixed-media exhibition that telegraphs (c)overt ways in which desire and sex are navigated and manifested, largely amongst men.
Dinco’s short film, “El Abuelo,” was commissioned by London’s Fashion in Film and premiered at the Tate Modern as part of the program, “If Looks Could Kill.” Shot on location in San Antonio, the film is a tender portrait of Texan poet and educator, Joe Jimenez, and addresses how the process of ironing clothes can trigger memories as well as facilitate a homeboy’s romance.
Readymades and Arte Povera inform Dinco’s sculptural objects which speak (bitter)sweetly of the failures and successes of love and lust.
Also featured are selections from two photographic series. The large-format images from “Elysian Park” reveal quiet landscape portraits shot on the cruising trails that intertwine alongside Dodger Stadium and the training academy for the Los Angeles Police Department. Dinco’s “sexgraffiti” series documents a waning form of communication amongst men looking for a discrete quickie: that of the hand-rendered advertisement marked in key public spaces. As the Internet has created – and absorbed – ways in which people meet and interact, crude hatchings in public spaces expose how the satisfaction of lust and desire continues to be affected by race, socio-economic status and educational access.
