Mathias Poledna

By Alexander Alberro, Tom Holert, Mathias Poledna

Subjects: Art, Art & Art Instruction, Exhibitions, Individual artists, Art, exhibitions, Mass Media - General, Film & Video - General, Musicians in art, Installations (Art), Rain forests in art, Art styles: c 1960 -, Video art, Art / Individual Artist, Individual Artist

Description: Austrian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptualist Mathias Poledna deconstructs and reconstructs pop, political and media history. The film "Western Recording" (2003, 11 min.) takes as its starting point the recording of a vocal track on the 1969 song "City Life" by the singer-composer Harry Nilsson.