00:00 booth of Paros Projects and we're talking with Javier Perez and he will tell us something
00:07 about his booth here at the Art Basel.
00:11 So we're presenting this year Terrence Coe in a solo presentation.
00:15 The entire body of work, which consists of four works, are untitled.
00:20 In this body of work Terrence is continuing his exploration of his own mythology and in
00:25 this case, having already died in his last exhibition in Berlin at the gallery, he is
00:32 now becoming an immortal.
00:34 The installation is set up so that one walks through the blinding lights which are flanked
00:39 by the gold paintings which act as mirrors.
00:43 The 222 lights reflected in the mirrors become 888 lights.
00:49 Triple infinity, an idea of triple happiness, it's a fictitious notion using numerology.
00:55 And as you enter the glass cubes you see that there is in the center a stack consisting
01:02 of 88 glass cases.
01:04 The cases are all filled with shit made out of bronze gilded in gold, flanked on the top
01:09 by two golden heads also cast in bronze and gilded in gold.
01:13 Portraits of Terrence speaking to himself in the position of the Roman kiss, cheek to
01:19 cheek, there's points of rapture as that God is becoming an immortal, he is becoming an
01:26 immortal.
01:27 So there's broken glass in some of the cases, there's a third head, an indication that the
01:31 God sees everything, his powers are sort of infinite.
01:36 And in the last bit you see in the corners these two visions of this supernatural creature.
01:43 He's both a beast and a man and a combination of both.
01:46 And the one on the right which is his bronze cast of himself, his head is gilded with golden
01:54 bees, they're all bees gilded in gold.
01:57 His mouth is opening and morphing into something else as he looks eternally into the mirror
02:04 gazing at his own sort of grotesqueness and beauty.
02:06 And on the other side you have a taxidermy of an orangutan, also gilded in gold, painted
02:12 with gold, with the nose and the head piece morphing into something else.
02:17 So that's basically what this installation is about on a very sort of basic superficial
02:22 level.
02:23 That's the narrative of the story.
02:26 It's all the narrative of the story by the way that I've made for it because he's given
02:30 us no indication of what any of the works are about.
02:33 Great.
02:34 Terrence, do you have a room in Berlin and in Los Angeles?
02:41 Yeah, I opened the gallery in Los Angeles on May 10, 2003 with the first solo exhibition
02:48 of then Asian Punk Boy who is Terrence Coe.
02:52 And then on September 30th of last year, 2005, I opened the gallery in Berlin with an exhibition
03:00 entitled "Mein Tod, Mein Tod, Mein Death, Mein Death" in German and that was Terrence's
03:05 death.
03:06 How about you?
03:09 You happy with your venue in Berlin?
03:11 Yeah, yeah.
03:12 I live in Berlin.
03:13 I have a house in Berlin.
03:14 I have a house in Los Angeles.
03:15 I'm even actually going to start taking German lessons this summer finally.
03:20 Having resisted learning German for a while.
03:23 I'm too old to learn such a hard language, you know.
03:26 Not like 18 years old or something.
03:29 So traveling a lot?
03:30 Yeah, I've always traveled a lot.
03:32 So this is nothing new.
03:33 No, I used to be a lawyer before and I managed a law firm in Belgium but my main office was
03:40 in California.
03:41 So I used to work between Belgium and California and my main, main client was actually in Frankfurt.
03:46 So you know the world.
03:49 I've always traveled, yes.
03:51 I know Western Europe and America better than other places, yeah.
03:56 I've never been to Asia.
03:58 Okay, thank you very much.
04:00 Sure, my pleasure.
04:02 Thank you.
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