Heineken
- Artist
- Louis Cameron, American, born 1973
- Date
- 2007
- Material
- Digital video on DVD
- made in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- 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.”
Provenance
- 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.
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.