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The Artists: Kevin and
Jennifer Mccoy
Kevin: “This is a re-creation of
our second date in Paris. We went to see Godard’s Weekend. The piece remakes this traffic-jam scene and intercuts that with the movie theater where Jen
and I, in miniature, are watching it. Miniatures are always about
creating a model of reality. Our take is
a little different in that we’re not
making continuous spaces, but different spaces in proximity to each other,
and the technology of film stitches them
together. That seemed like a really contemporary situation to us, the way disparate things are juxtaposed
all the time.”
The Collector: Actor
Bill Paxton
“It appealed to me in its theatricality and originality. In my work, miniatures are still used—even though CGI is taking over—going back to Aliens and pictures like that. It’s an old Hollywood craft that the McCoys are using. The illusion of perspective and the framing of the master and close-up—the
way you see it happening in real time is like a mini-education
in filmmaking.”
The Work: Our Second Date (2004). Sold for around $25,000.
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