Pseudodocumentation: Holes 200942" x 55" Lightjet Print
"That David
DiMichele’s art should impress on such a scale is all the more surprising (and
impressive) given that his Pseudo
Documentation series of large-scale photographs is actually a depiction of small- scale models. The collection,
depicting immense installation artworks, is no simplistic parody of installation
art
per se, it is much more subtle than
that. More homage than parody, the
images succeed on a deeper level, commenting not just on large-scale
installation art as a genre, but also on the way we frequently perceive such
art- as often through websites or books as actually visiting an
exhibition. The fantastical, dream-like
effect of a figure isolated in a cavernous hall, surrounded or even overwhelmed
by art, is also somehow an unsettling one. Partly this is due to the heightened
reality of DiMichele’s dioramas, where he is able to precisely manipulate light
and perspective, but it is also something more.There is love here- love of art,
love of drama, love of architecture- but a certain coldness too. Just as the
art is so much bigger, elevated, the human figure is inversely smaller, more
vulnerable and subservient to the human vision embodied in art." James
Lee Tullis, Platinum Magazine, Winter 2010
Pseudodocumentation: Holes