Paul Pfeiffer: The Long Count (Rumble in the Jungle)

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2 vitrines, with objects within, stand in front of 3 large images, framed on the walls behind

Paul Pfeiffer, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (6), 2001. Digital duraflex print, 60 x 48 in, unframed. Courtesy of the artist and The Project, New York.

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This will be the U.S. premiere of Paul Pfeiffer’s The Long Count (Rumble In The Jungle), is the second of three works in which the artist has painstakingly removed Muhammad Ali from the boxer’s most famous bouts.

This piece continues his investigation of racial identity through his use of popular iconography, namely athletes and movie stars, across various media. Born in 1966 in Honolulu of Philippine descent, Pfeiffer has not had a great deal of public exposure until recently and has never before exhibited in the Boston area. Pfeiffer won the Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2000 Biennial Exhibition.

Images

Manipulated photograph of a filled basketball arena and a single player, jumping with one hand up to block a shot
Photograph of a crowded sports arena cheering around an athlete with his arms outstretched
2 white walls give way to a large video projection in the back room, with a vitrine holding a small object in the foreground
Small, white framed digital screen is mounted to the wall, displaying a white human-like form on a black background
Close up photograph of a miniature chrome television, displaying a sports event.
3 framed images hang behind a vitrine housing a miniature television with a glowing screen.
2 vitrines, with objects within, stand in front of 3 large images, framed on the walls behind
Box television monitor is mounted to the wall; it’s screen shows a colorful image warped and twisted
A digital camcorder sits on a pedestal within a vitrine, framed with black edges.

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