Milking Kidman while he's here...
Single
Studies of Movement
By Andrew Kidman
Featuring Stephanie Gilmore
December 12
th 7-10pm
29 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11249
Andrew Kidman is an Australian born artist who, over the years, has found his niche by presenting his love for surfing and music together in film. He’s always been interested in representing as some call it, ‘the dance’ or the way a surfer interacts with the wave. Early in his life, Andrew spent time with Hawaiian surfer Rell Sunn, which had a profound effect on him. Noticing her grace on the water, he wondered if perhaps it was possible that only a woman could interact so intuitively with the sea like this.
In his film,
Glass Love (2005), Andrew attempted to show this grace in the opening sequence. The edit featured Daize Shayne surfing on a longboard as the sun set across the water. Shayne’s captivating silhouette against the golden sea has garnered close to two million views on YouTube. Kidman, at the time, made a series of screen prints of one of the images and presented them for a one-night show at the
303 Gallery in New York City.
Single, Studies of Movement (2013), furthers his work with the female ‘dance’ on the sea. Whilst working on his new film,
Spirit of Akasha a Celebration of Albert Falzon’s 1972 classic, Morning of the Earth, Kidman filmed a sequence of Stephanie Gilmore at Greenmount, riding a Dave Parmenter -shaped single fin. Gilmore’s session was so remarkable Kidman dedicated an entire book to it.
The book
Single, is an ode to Gilmore’s dance at Greenmount, an intriguing series of grainy frame grabs which stop time, allowing one to view her innately graceful agility in sequence form; thus the title,
Studies of Movement.The 80-page hardcover book also features essays by Dave Parmenter, Andrew Kidman and Albert Falzon, as well as an in depth interview with Stephanie Gilmore.
On the 12th of December, Kidman will present his book, Single along with edition prints and a projection from the sequence of Stephanie. Andrew will also be exhibiting some of the original screenprints of Daize Shayne from the film, Glass Love. Limks Cat Power - I Found a Reason And
Kindly supported by Crumpler, Griffin Editions, Pilgrim Surf & Supply, SMASH and Xsories
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