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Heineken

Date
2007
Classification
Media arts
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
duration: 3 min. 45 sec. loop
Credit Line
Funds given by Elissa and Paul Cahn and Joan and Mitchell Markow
Rights
© Louis Cameron
Object Number
21:2008
NOTES
For this video Louis Cameron scanned an image of a six¬pack of Heineken beer, which he then distorted on the computer by stretching it into a vertical strip. The result is an abstract film that evokes a stream of flowing color. “I’m interested in how colors codify within consumer culture,” Cameron has explained. “I don’t have the burden of making an image that registers in a few seconds like advertisers or people in branding do. I’m interested in that slow read—something similar to a painting experience.”
- 2008
I-20 Gallery, New York, NY, representing the artist

2008 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from I-20 Gallery, New York, NY, with Schmidt Contemporary Art (Jim Schmidt), St. Louis, MO, acting as agent [1]

Notes
[1] Invoice dated November 7, 2008 from Schmidt Contemporary Art [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 17, 2008.

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