Editions: Museum Zoetrope - Too Much Information by Gavin Shapiro

Gavin Shapiro’s work, at its core, is intended to make viewers smile. By juxtaposing hyper-serious technical meticulousness with lighthearted (and often adorable) subject matter, Shapiro presents a tongue-in-cheek worldview that pokes fun at exaggerated notions of self-importance and overintellectualism found in the traditional art world.

In Too Much Information, an eager bird is repeatedly crushed under the weight of a falling book. A metaphor for the artist’s own sense of futility in trying to keep up with the ever-increasing pace of technological advancement, the work is presented here at the Museum Zoetrope in the way it was intended to be seen: forty enormous oil paintings in the timeless style of Renaissance masters, set in motion through traditional real-world animation techniques.

Located in the Antarctic Peninsula, Museum Zoetrope is the only first-person zoetrope in the world.

Each exhibition showcases a single four-second looping animation presented as forty sequential frames around the circumference of the museum. Viewers can watch the animation come to life by riding a motorized car that runs along a central circular track.

More information about Museum Zoetrope as well as upcoming exhibitions can be found at https://museumzoetrope.org

This piece is obtainable for free by burning any squad from the Five Penguins series.

Five Penguins: https://opensea.io/collection/fivepenguins
Burn page: https://app.manifold.xyz/br/museumzoetrope_01