Tommy Hartung: At the On Stellar Rays Gallery

Hartung's 'The Bible' video combines found footage, sounds and animation to convey meanings related to the Bible. A colleague recommended this show to me because of the weird relationships stablished by the artist between imagery and religious meaning.

Personally, the film appears forced, intendedly twisted and unnecessarily complicated to understand. The only references that draw back to the Bible subject is a choir of boys chanting in an obviously religious way, referencing the 23rd psalm.

I am not a devote fan of contemporary art, specially New Yorker contemporary art because of the extravagance of the resources employed to convey simple meanings. Even though there are interesting scenes in this video, the overall outcome was not possible to internalize, at least by me.

Still from 'The Bible'
Taken from On Stellar Rays Gallery Website