New Edition
October 25, 2007
The gallery is pleased to announce the long-anticipated edition launch of Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s Live to Tell at the Toronto International Art Fair (October 26-29).
Live to Tell, 2002
An ubiquity of surveillance cameras bears witness to a choral rendition of a 1980s Madonna ballad.
6 minutes, looping DVD, colour with sound
Includes custom packaging designed by the artist, a sub-master archival disk and an exhibition copy disk with a letter-press numbered and signed letter written by the artist to Madonna, sealed envelope.
Signed and numbered certificate.
Edition of 5 plus one Artists’s Proof $2,500
"Live to Tell" has screened in over 150 film and video festivals worldwide, in galleries in Germany, France, Holland, Austria, Japan, Spain and Canada (including this summer's Auto Emotion exhibition at Toronto's Power Plant) and won prizes at the Hamburg Short Film Festival and Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofestival"
"Madonna should thank her lucky stars an artist like Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay pays her any attention. His kind of sophisticated analysis of her psychic effect on people's lives does not come around often, although his derivative work stands alone as a statement on social change and personal triumph. His incredible interpretations are so full of true and deeply buried emotion, they never parody or even directly refer to the original maker's pilfered material."
Stefan St-Laurent, in It Will Burn Inside of Me, an essay on Nemerofsky Ramsay's video work.