Here, in the light of the perfect day, distortion transforms an instance of banality into one of harmonious beauty, and then back again. ![]() This conceptual turn of analysis complicates notions of how art, as containers for the idealizations and constructions of the artist, transforms at the point where the work and the viewer intersect. They elude straightforward classification, deftly using the representational as a point of departure into the abstract, allowing the subject to become incidental to the compositional form created. In 1995, somewhere in the Balkans, a band of war zone rescuers deal with an unexpected crisis, layers of bureaucratic red tape, and the reappearance of their leader's (Benicio del Toro) old flame (Olga Kurylenko). The works on view are conversational in their approach: artful while uplifting, subtle yet populist, affective rather than academic. On the day the two seek to have the missing man declared dead, life presents possible ways forwardbut grief, guilt and easy distractions seem to bar the way. These subsequent “errors” present within accurate abstractions form constructed images that appear uncanny, subtly deceitful in the transmutation of old signifiers into new. Years after the war and the disappearance of the man who was their husband and father, a woman waits obsessively for his return while her grown son mourns a lost love. ![]() Roughness arising from aesthetic disruptions, rather than detracting from, add singularity and elegance often, the most interesting effect happens without intention, a byproduct of what was originally predetermined. Yet a tenant of perfection is its very incompleteness, since only the latter can attain innovation, or sustain change. Crisp photography, boisterous tunes and a stacked deck of affable company make this funny, incisive comedy a memorable entry for the war. Perfection is fleeting, maybe illusory, always at a distance. Can one re-visit the perfect day, as one might revisit a book fresh, or does it evaporate once experienced? The perfect day is an auspicious contradiction, defined only as cumulative moments passed, seen through the lens of perspective while experienced in the present, the realization of its presence lags achingly behind. Tim Robbins (left) and Benicio Del Toro in 'A Perfect Day.' IFC Films Movie review A Perfect Day Running time: 106 minutes. Or, is it the laid-back fantasy daydream of compiled experiences. Is the perfect day a seemingly sweet love story? Is it marked by the simplicity of narratives driving most timeless pop music. ![]() The work on view will highlight the shifting of paradigms necessary to find beauty within imperfect gestures, the parallels between systemic ideas of perfection and modes of ideal image construction, and how the works on view engage with these possibilities. Roberts & Tilton is pleased to present Perfect Day a group exhibition exploring the syncretism of beauty within imperfection.
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