Art21 proudly presents an artist segment, featuring Tala Madani, from the "Los Angeles" episode in the ninth season of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" series.

"Los Angeles " premiered in September 2016 on PBS. Watch now on PBS and the PBS Video app: https://www.pbs.org/video/art-21-los-angeles/

Tala Madani skewers stereotypes in her sharply satirical paintings that evoke clashes of culture: men and women, the rational and the absurd, Western and non-Western.

Madani’s figurative paintings often feature a riotous cast of middle-aged men, balding and stocky, whose libidinal mayhem wreaks havoc on any situation the artist thrusts them into. Acerbic caricatures of both machismo and a childlike desire for mischief, the physical comedy at work in Madani’s paintings is anchored by intense pleasures, pathos, and a pervasive sense of violence. Madani’s pictures are also transformed into stop-motion animations where the artist photographs a freshly created scene over time—wet paint still glistening—resulting in stories of small calamities that are once hilarious, tender, and ghoulish.

Learn more about the artists at:
https://art21.org/artist/tala-madani/

CREDITS | Executive Producer: Eve Moros Ortega. Host: Claire Danes: Director: Deborah Dickson. Producer & Structure Consultant: Véronique Bernard. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Art21 Executive Director: Tina Kukielski. Curator: Wesley Miller. Director of Production: Nick Ravich. Associate Producer: Ian Forster. Director of Photography: Scott Anger. Additional Photography: Ulli Bonnekamp, Steve Delahoyde, Rob Humphreys, Tom Hurwitz, Robert Muratore, & Gordon Spooner. Assistant Camera: Seana Carroll, Chad Herschberger, Agnes Jeanneau, Sean Prange, & Nancy Serna. Sound: Chad Herschberger, Kathryn Korniloff, Peter Miller, & Theresa Radka. Denver Field Producer: Sarah Wambold. Aspen Production Assistant: Jessica Parsons.

Title/Motion Design: Afternoon Inc. Composer: Joel Pickard. Online Editor: Don Wyllie. Re-Recording Mix: Tony Pipitone. Sound Edit: Neil Cedar & Jay Fisher. Artwork Animation: Anita H.M. Yu. Assistant Editor: Maria Habib, Leana Siochi, Christina Stiles, & Bahron Thomas.

Host Introduction | Creative Consultant: Tucker Gates. Director of Photography: Pete Konczal. Second Camera: Jon Cooper. Key Grip: Chris Wiesehahn. Gaffer: Jesse Newton. First Assistant Camera: Sara Boardman & Shane Duckworth. Sound: James Tate. Set Dresser: Jess Coles. Hair: Peter Butler. Makeup: Matin. Production Assistant: Agatha Lewandowski & Melanie McLean. Editor: Ilya Chaiken.

Additional Music | “Animals Posing”: Performed by Los Tres Pericos; Written by Mason and Mackenzie; 2M Recordings 2015. “One Duppy Two Duppy Three Duppy” by Natural Numbers; Produced by Tom Chasteen; Courtesy of Stones Throw Records.

Artworks Courtesy of: Edgar Arceneaux; Liz Larner; Tala Madani; Diana Thater; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery; Pilar Corrias; General Services Administration; David Kordansky Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Performa; Regen Projects; University of California, San Francisco; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; David Zwirner.

Special Thanks: The Art21 Board of Trustees; 3LD Art and Technology Center; Ace Hotel Downtown Los Angeles; Michael Aglion; Angeles National Forest and San Gabriel National Monument; Zora Arceneaux; Art Center College of Design; The Art Institute of Chicago; Aspen Art Museum; CalArts Center for New Performance; Pat Casteel; Tom Chasteen; City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks; Dub Club; Christina Faist; Film L.A.; Forest Service, U.S.D.A.; Griffith Observatory; The Hammer Museum at UCLA; Hollyhock House; Jenette Kahn; Christine Kim; Sheila Lynch; T. Kelly Mason; Mona Bismarck American Center; Mount Wilson Observatory; Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles; Sascha Robinett; Diana Salier; Keith Shapiro; The Theatre at Ace Hotel; Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park; Erin Wright; & Steve Wylie.

Additional Art21 Staff: Maggie Albert; Lindsey Davis; Joe Fusaro; Jessica Hamlin; Jonathan Munar; Bruno Nouril; Pauline Noyes; Kerri Schlottman; & Diane Vivona.

Public Relations: Cultural Counsel. Station Relations: De Shields Associates, Inc. Legal Counsel: Albert Gottesman.

Dedicated To: Susan Sollins, Art21 Founder.

Major support for Season 8 is provided by National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Lambent Foundation, Agnes Gund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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