Madonna X-STaTIC PRO=CeSS Video Installation #4
It will surprise no one that in the resulting photographs, Madonna is wearing Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche leather boots, Prada tap pants, a Dolce & Gabbana silk corset, and several lavishly ornamented Christian Lacroix Couture pieces, including a beaded face covering that the Daily News mistook for a gas mask. But even in the pages of Wno one will mistake this for a fashion shoot. In one of that magazine's panoramic double gatefolds, the masked Madonna kneels, one leg outstretched, on a bare stage in what looks like a factory space, raw save for several panels of sheer curtains behind her. On the concrete floor nearby, a coyote strains at its leash, while a little further off a burning wedding dress, already half-consumed, sends flames high into the air. (Klein acknowledges "revisiting," sometimes unintentionally, several key Madonna props-the wedding dress, the bed, the dance pole-to see how the singer's relationship to them has changed.) At Deitch, in a show called, annoyingly, "X-STaTIC PRo=CeSS," this image has been turned into a billboard-sized "photo animation," eight feet high and 26 feet long, housed at the back of a deep, shed-like structure designed by those suave masters of the ad hoc, LOT/EK. At this scale, the photo is essentially life-size, and the illusion that we're looking into another room is underscored by the animated images of the wafting curtains and the mounting flames. The effect is bombastic, all the more so because speakers embedded in the ...
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