From Tall Story to Infinite Conversation: ‘The Head Fountain'

Catalogue Essay for show at West Lane South Gallery, London.

"Warren Garland, The Head Fountain, West Lane South Gallery, until 22 February 2014

In The Head Fountain Warren Garland lays out the segments of King Vidor’s 1949 film, the Fountainhead (adapted from Ayn Rand’s 700-page novel of the same name) in reverse order.

As well as an entertaining (and refreshing) diatribe against the iniquities of neo-liberal capitalism, Paul O’Kane’s text (download here), written to accompany the screening of Garland’s film, is an interesting coda to a key theme that runs through Now Showing. O’Kane considers how the restructuring of an existing narrative enables new narratives to emerge, whilst prompting a reconsideration of the ‘original’ and emphasising the importance of context in our reading of a work."

Carroll / Fletcher Onscreen (Jonathon Carroll and Steve Fletcher)

(Source: http://carrollfletcheronscreen.com/2014/01/28/lewis-klahr-warren-garland/)

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