Artist, Frank Perna, born in Oakville, Ontario in 1960, is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and is currently working out of Toronto, Canada. He is best known for a recent series of paintings concerning international stock exchange floors. Other projects include the Kennedy Subway Station Mural as well as numerous commissions for feature films, TV movies and commercials. Perna has also worked on two large Frank Stella projects. His work has been exhibited in Toronto, Vancouver, New York and Florence, Italy. His recent solo shows featured photo realist oil paintings that source photo-journalist imagery from world wide stock exchange floors and focus on microcosms of their blurred activities. His 2005 show at Noho Gallery in Chelsea, NY was supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada.
Is a short edit of an over 2 1/2 hour video installation featuring a projection and a 4 speaker double soundtrack.
The Murmuration refers to the flight of starlings in nature which are known to create formations which have been processed into a black graphic and layered over the Wetworlds video backdrop. Both visuals are presented in vertical mirror format.
Originally intended as a hypothetical view hovering over earth's wetlands, waterways and land masses, the vertical format takes on a different context as the viewer can make their own random almost hallucinatory associations not unlike a Rorschach inkblot or view it as pure abstraction.
The condensed accompanying ambient sound edit remix originates from the 2 original soundtracks(1 hrs 15 min.and 1 hrs 54 min)that are not synchronized during live performance.This results in random musical relationships and a new listening experience every time.
Please enjoy this short version as the full length "Wetworld Murmuration" large scale experience will be announced in the near future with a live ambient music performance with special guests.
