• A Moveable Sun
  • True
  • Farewell Tour
  • Selected Work
  • Christopher Capriotti
  • CV
  • Contact
Christopher Capriotti
A Moveable Sun
True
Farewell Tour
Selected Work
CV
Contact
installation view
The Magic Circle (After John William Waterhouse) 
fiberglass reinforced cement, reflective spray
2020


February 26 1992 (After Ivar Enger) and February 26 1988 (After Frank Dux)
installation view
February 26 1992 (After Ivar Enger)
digital prints on luster paper, aluminum frames
2020

Documentation images of an attempt at recreating the cover photo of Darkthrone's seminal black metal album A Blaze in the Northern Sky (released February 26, 1992, which is also the day I was born), utilizing a leather motorcycle jacket treated with a high visibility automotive paint.

Ivar Enger was the rhythm guitarist of Darkthrone, and the subject of the original photograph. He left the band, and allegedly Norwegian society as a whole, in the mid 90s, though his reasons for leaving remain disputed: he left because he became misanthropic, or because his alcoholism led to a car wreck and a long hospital stay, or maybe it was due to his jealousy of the closeness of the two remaining bandmates.

Regardless, no one knows where he went.


February 26 1988 (After Frank Dux)
plywood, pine, vinyl composition tile, aluminum
2020

This work is an exploration of utilitarian ritual spaces that, in my experience, are largely dominated by a specific form of performative male. The piece is a false floor finished in the kind of tile you find in rented out church basements and suburban VFWs; the form references the location of the final fight in the 1988 film Bloodsport, starring Jean Claude van Damme.

The film is ostensibly based on a true story told by the Canadian-American Frank Dux, who claims to have won a 1975 underground fighting competition, known as the Kumite, by way of 56 consecutive knock outs.

An unreliable narrator, Dux has also claimed to have been an important member of the CIA whose military record has been erased, to have trained as a ninja in a secretive clan since the age of 16, and to have stopped an assassination attempt against Steven Seagal. 


February 26 1988 (After Frank Dux)
detail
Three Flails
electrical metallic tubing, chain, hardware, spray enamel
2020


Beds
plywood, faux venetian plaster, salt, field marking paint, construction crayon, chalk
2020

The West Memphis Three are three men convicted, as teenagers, of the 1993 murders of three boys in Arkansas. The prosecution alleged that the teens worshiped satan, and had killed the boys as part of an occult rite; this was based on their interest in wicca, heavy metal music, and black trench coats. Despite their lack of connection to the victims, and a general mishandling of the case, the three were convicted and sentenced: Jason Baldwin received a life sentence, Jessie Misskelley Jr. got life plus 40 years, and Damien Echols was sentenced to death. 
The three were retried and released in 2011 on an Alford plea, which consisted of verbally stating their innocence while formally pleading guilty.
The murders remain unsolved.
Valiant
monoprints on mylar, translucent paper backing
2020


installation view
Mickey
digital print on rag paper mounted on plywood
2020

Rephotograph of Mickey Rourke being pulled off of Steve Powell during a 1991 boxing match. The gold shorts were tailored by Gianni Versace.


doom
installation view
2020


doom
screen captured video of custom Doom mod based on the Atelier FAS gallery space
2020
doom
screen captured video of custom Doom mod based on the Atelier FAS gallery space
2020
Chair
painted steel folding chair, auto body filler
2020


Wrestling (2)
installation view
2020
Wrestling (2)
off screen captured video of an AI-controlled wrestling match in WWE2k18; wrestlers are Christopher Capriotti and Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2020
Wrestling (2)
off screen captured video of an AI-controlled wrestling match in WWE2k18; wrestlers are Christopher Capriotti and Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2020
installation view
The Magic Circle (After John William Waterhouse) 
fiberglass reinforced cement, reflective spray
2020


February 26 1992 (After Ivar Enger) and February 26 1988 (After Frank Dux)
installation view
February 26 1992 (After Ivar Enger)
digital prints on luster paper, aluminum frames
2020

Documentation images of an attempt at recreating the cover photo of Darkthrone's seminal black metal album A Blaze in the Northern Sky (released February 26, 1992, which is also the day I was born), utilizing a leather motorcycle jacket treated with a high visibility automotive paint.

Ivar Enger was the rhythm guitarist of Darkthrone, and the subject of the original photograph. He left the band, and allegedly Norwegian society as a whole, in the mid 90s, though his reasons for leaving remain disputed: he left because he became misanthropic, or because his alcoholism led to a car wreck and a long hospital stay, or maybe it was due to his jealousy of the closeness of the two remaining bandmates.

Regardless, no one knows where he went.


February 26 1988 (After Frank Dux)
plywood, pine, vinyl composition tile, aluminum
2020

This work is an exploration of utilitarian ritual spaces that, in my experience, are largely dominated by a specific form of performative male. The piece is a false floor finished in the kind of tile you find in rented out church basements and suburban VFWs; the form references the location of the final fight in the 1988 film Bloodsport, starring Jean Claude van Damme.

The film is ostensibly based on a true story told by the Canadian-American Frank Dux, who claims to have won a 1975 underground fighting competition, known as the Kumite, by way of 56 consecutive knock outs.

An unreliable narrator, Dux has also claimed to have been an important member of the CIA whose military record has been erased, to have trained as a ninja in a secretive clan since the age of 16, and to have stopped an assassination attempt against Steven Seagal. 


February 26 1988 (After Frank Dux)
detail
Three Flails
electrical metallic tubing, chain, hardware, spray enamel
2020


Beds
plywood, faux venetian plaster, salt, field marking paint, construction crayon, chalk
2020

The West Memphis Three are three men convicted, as teenagers, of the 1993 murders of three boys in Arkansas. The prosecution alleged that the teens worshiped satan, and had killed the boys as part of an occult rite; this was based on their interest in wicca, heavy metal music, and black trench coats. Despite their lack of connection to the victims, and a general mishandling of the case, the three were convicted and sentenced: Jason Baldwin received a life sentence, Jessie Misskelley Jr. got life plus 40 years, and Damien Echols was sentenced to death. 
The three were retried and released in 2011 on an Alford plea, which consisted of verbally stating their innocence while formally pleading guilty.
The murders remain unsolved.
Valiant
monoprints on mylar, translucent paper backing
2020


installation view
Mickey
digital print on rag paper mounted on plywood
2020

Rephotograph of Mickey Rourke being pulled off of Steve Powell during a 1991 boxing match. The gold shorts were tailored by Gianni Versace.


doom
installation view
2020


doom
screen captured video of custom Doom mod based on the Atelier FAS gallery space
2020
Chair
painted steel folding chair, auto body filler
2020


Wrestling (2)
installation view
2020
Wrestling (2)
off screen captured video of an AI-controlled wrestling match in WWE2k18; wrestlers are Christopher Capriotti and Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson
2020