Sean Duffy ramps up his familiar garage-band aesthetic in a large new body of work that contains a few surprises. It’s the final exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects’ current space, before the gallery moves four blocks west in January.
The show includes two of Duffy’s patented “hybrid record-players,” in which several turntables are cut apart and reassembled into one working machine. Put on a vinyl album by Dusty Springfield or, appropriately, the soundtrack to the 1961 Ingrid Bergman film, “Goodbye Again,” which tells of the entanglements of May-December romance, and the turntable does the rest. Multiple needles play the songs at more than one place simultaneously, creating bleary melodies from a layered, time-lapse narrative.
Duffy mashes together serial repetition, familiar from the mass-production ethos of Pop art, with plain old recycling. Social and cultural distinctions between high art and low art disappear.
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