John Waters: Rear Projection

John Waters... Study Art Sign (For Breeding or Bounty) (2007, Acrylic urethane on wood and aluminum, series of six, each with unique wording). From the exhibition John Waters: Rear Projection at Marianne Boesky Gallery. "...Glorifying the struggle, the humiliation and the wild excitement of a life in show business, Waters uses an insider's bag of film tricks and trade lingo to celebrate the excess of the movie industry. Rewriting and redirecting existing film imagery snapped off the TV screen, these one time classic, respected, even honored movies are now assaulted, elevated, subtitled and startlingly altered into a new kind of equality; a cult film that only needs one viewer – John Waters himself. Child stars are given bad habits, innocent movies are perverted by editing out just a few frames, even traditionally beautiful movie stars are glamorously deformed by suspiciously over-budgeted charity advertising campaigns. The cult of religion and the religion of cult are the same in Waters's world. He sneaks into other movies like a spy to photograph the very details their original directors didn't notice."