It was only a matter of time before Hollywood satirized the contemporary art market's meteroic rise (and subsequent implosion last fall) over the last ten years.
Directed by Jonathan Parker (Bartleby), the satire stars Marley Shelton (Sin City) as a Chelsea gallery owner and Adam Goldberg (2 Days in Paris) as an avant-garde composer too avant-garde for the music world. Shelton's gallerist "discovers" him, sees the golden boy potential and subsequently remarkets him as a must-see sound artist.
The upcoming film lampoons the baffling relationship between art, commerce, and concept. Vacuum cleaners and taxidermied animals appear as not so thinly veiled references to blue-chip artists like Koons and Hirst, but Parker mines contemporary art even deeper, giving sly nods to Bruce Nauman and even Christopher Wool.
The cherry on top is the movie's title, which is Untitled (seriously). That alone is worth the price of admission. Check for Untitled to be released at a theatre near you sometime this fall.
For more information, visit the Palm Springs International Film Festival site, where Untitled premiered in early 2009: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=20659&fid=36
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