Matt Marello     The Pollock Project A multiple screen video projection 6 September - 7 October, 2002 opening Friday, 6 September, 7-9p   (invite image)       installation view         installation view     Press Release The installation, "The Pollock Project," consists of three videos projected onto old home-movie screens, one floor-projection, and three objects on display in a vitrine. The first projection is a loop of Jackson Pollock performing his famous drip painting technique in his studio in Springs, Long Island. In the video, Mr. Pollock has been digitally removed from the scene and replaced, using a labor intensive frame-by-frame technique called rotoscoping, by the artist Matt Marello. In the second projection, Led Zepplin dummer John Bonham performs a blistering drum solo from the film "The Song Remains the Same." Mr. Bonham has also been digitally removed from the original and replaced by Matt Marello. The third loop, taken from the film "Enter the Dragon," has the famous martial artist Bruce Lee demonstrating his prowess with a weapon known as the nunchakus. Again, Mr. Lee has been removed and replaced by Matt Marello. The floor projection is of the headlights of a car on the road from East Hampton to the Pollock crash site. All three artists met untimely deaths under unusual circumstances. Jackson Pollock was involved in an alcohol-induced car accident near his studio on Long Island, killing himself and an acquaintance Edith Metzger, and seriously injuring Ruth Klingman, his lover. John Bonham died on September 24, 1980 at fellow band member Jimmy Page's home in England. After a number of drinks and a dose of methadone to ward off heroin cravings, he fell asleep on a bed upstairs, face-up, and choked on his own vomit. Bruce Lee, after complaining of a headache while staying at the apartment of the actress Betty Ting-Pei in Hong Kong, took a 'borrowed' pain-killer "Equagesic," suffered a brain hemorrhage, and died in his sleep. There is also a vitrine in the installation containing three objects - a paint brush, a pair of drum sticks, and a set of nunchakus. All three objects have been carved from wood taken from trees at the crash site of Jackson Pollock's fatal car accident on August 11th, 1956. And each object appears in the final videos.   For information on Matt Marello's 2006 exhibition at Pierogi: 1968 / 2001
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