Description
Rico Gatson appropriated the familiar imagery of pop-culture cinema in his 2001 video, Gun Play. It is an arresting collage that mixes sequences from Jack Hill’s 1974 blaxploitation film Foxy Brown and Sergio Leone’s epic spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, from 1966. Here Gatson composes a kaleidoscope of cult references and Hollywood clichés that confront the mesmerizing power of mainstream media.Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
Single Channel Video, Color, Sound; 02:35 Minutes
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
