ANGLES GALLERY
2230 and 2222 Main Street, Santa Monica
October 31–December 06

Gregory Kucera's West Coast gallery debut explores how
we perceive, record, edit, interpret, and output information
and experience. Two video works, Line and Flight and
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction #2 (both 2002), form the
core of the show. Line and Flight is a four-channel piece
offering north, south, east, and western views of a city
street seen from a fixed position on the ground and a
moving perspective in the air. The single-channel
Spatiotemporal Reconstruction #2 shows one end of a
telephone conversation enacted by the same woman
four times, in four different settings, then stitched
together in fragments to create a record that's coherent in
narrative and character but discontinuous in space and
time. Echoes of these two videos crop up in a series of
objects that transpose two-dimensional imagery into 3-D
form: Temporal Relief, 2002, looks like a minimalist
cube gouged with abstract markings but, when viewed
from certain angles, offers perfect perspectival renditions
of stills from Line and Flight. And a group of white
Plexiglas wall pieces are drilled full of tiny holes that
coalesce into images from Spatiotemporal
Reconstruction #2, for an effect not unlike Lichtenstein's
Benday dots overlaid on a Donald Judd.

—Christopher Miles

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Re: Gregory Kucera
by Deathbytonfa, 12.03.03 10:51 am
When I look at this peice I see feelings of anger, sadness, and joy. This is a great peice of art.