That was certainly true by 1996 when the artist broke from the TV monitor and turned to projections. (Pipilotti Rist / Luhring Augustine and Hauser & Wirth) It’s funny, but with an edge - Rist, early on, toying with ideas of the uncontrollable. She dances maniacally and plays the tape at high speed so that she sounds like a chipmunk. The Beatles version is languid Rist’s is the opposite. In the late 1980s, she began to draw the attention of experimental film groups and the art world with an eight-minute piece titled “I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much.” The video features the artist, clad in a black dress, singing the title of the piece, a line inspired by the opening lyric from the Beatles song “Happiness is a Warm Gun.” ( One of their more delightful videos opens with footage of a bright pink colon, though it could also be an esophagus - a harbinger of Rist’s later work, which dwells on the body.)īut it was video, not performance, that would ultimately be her métier. In the 1980s and ‘90s, she performed with a feminist-punk-klezmer-cabaret act called Les Reines Prochaines. For a time, she tried her hand at performance. Rist became intrigued by experimental cinema in the early 1980s during her studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and later took classes in video production at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. Pipilotti is a nickname inspired by Pippi Longstocking, the adventuresome Swedish children’s book character (and later, TV character) - and, indeed, there is a fierceness they share. Pipilotti Rist was born Elisabeth Charlotte Rist in Grabs, Switzerland, the daughter of a doctor and a teacher. As Katz notes, “There is pleasure and pain.” Her art may bear vivid, ebullient surfaces, but the emotional states they evoke go deep. “There are so many ways to try to say that children and women don’t have to be taken seriously.”Īnd, certainly, it’d be a mistake not to take Rist seriously. “It’s more linked to women and to children,” she adds. “Whereas black and white is linked with writing and the letter and with reason, color is not rational, color is dangerous. “Color, like music, you cannot hold back from an emotion,” she says. Rist, however, is interested in the states that color elicits. One hundred years ago in Europe, probably also in America, the respectable person would be the teacher or the priest and they would wear dark and black and they’d say, ‘My true values are deep inside, I don’t need to show them.’”
“One reason is that they think it’s too exotic, it’s too wild. “There are different reasons why the snobbish West would not appreciate the colors,” she says in her Swiss-German accent. Last year, she told Calvin Tomkins of the New Yorker that, “In the Western world, color is underestimated.”Īt MOCA on a break from installing her show, she expands on that statement. Entertainment & Arts Love of a Black planet: Artist April Bey’s Atlantica soars beyond WakandaĪrtist April Bey’s sumptuous solo show “Atlantica, The Gilda Region” at CAAM imagines a world in which “all Black people are loved and accepted.”
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