Over Kandahar, 2011 - Perry Burns
About the Work
About Over Kandahar
Like a video game on pause, Perry Burns's Over Kandahar, named after the Afghan city, captures a computerized battle. Helicopters fly directly toward the viewer, and from the smoke in the left-hand side, it's clear that there is ...Read More
Like a video game on pause, Perry Burns's Over Kandahar, named after the Afghan city, captures a computerized battle. Helicopters fly directly toward the viewer, and from the smoke in the left-hand side, it's clear that there is destruction ahead. Below the bright blue skies surrounding these bombers is a series of colored and grayscale streaks followed by op-art bulls-eyes. Burns challenges the complacency of playing a video game with the reality of the death and destruction of war.Read Less
About the Artist
About Perry Burns
Perry Burns's fundamental philosophy in life and art is "Peace at all cost." His work is overtly political and blurs the line between photojournalism ...Read More
Perry Burns's fundamental philosophy in life and art is "Peace at all cost." His work is overtly political and blurs the line between photojournalism and art, raising questions about the impact of visual images in the news. He mentions censored media reports on wars and the disconnect viewers have from the reality of a situation and its documentation. It's as if, the artist reports, "we, the viewer, are playing a video game while unseen people are dying in the streets." His work aggressively confronts contemporary issues of war and politics and documents the U.S. conflict in the Middle East.
Holding degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University, Perry Burns has also received various artistic fellowships and has exhibited in numerous galleries and art fairs, including the Scope Art Fair in London.Read Less
Holding degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia University, Perry Burns has also received various artistic fellowships and has exhibited in numerous galleries and art fairs, including the Scope Art Fair in London.Read Less
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