Mubi is presenting the world premiere of James N. Kientiz Wilkins' The Republic from July 4 - August 3, 2017.The cinema of James N. Kienitz Wilkins occupies an unusual space in the contemporary art scene. Most of his films are the result of some sort of conceptual procedure, a decision either to treat his original footage according to some abstract system or to apply his own logic to found material. And yet, there is a plainspoken quality to Kienitz Wilkins’ work that smooths out any potential “art damage” or intimidation factor. Kienitz Wilkins has successfully adapted some of the most critical weapons in the arsenal of experimental cinema to produce a stark poetry of the everyday.Kienitz Wilkins’ newest “film,” The Republic, is quite possibly his most radical effort to date. For starters, you will notice that I put the word “film” in quotation marks, since it is no easy matter to...
- 7/4/2017
- MUBI
Keltie Ferris Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NYC Through October 17, 2015
A screenwriter bursts into his agent's office. "I have a great idea for a new picture," he enthuses. "We do a remake of The Wiz. Only with white people!" Clichéd Hollywood joke, sure, yet pretty much on point with regard to current trends in art and music. The mash-up, dub, remix, redux, or whatever you want to call it, has replaced the "appropriation" strategies of the 80s. It has morphed into something called Zombie Formalism that for better, or worse, is now seen as a legitimate art movement.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is showing the paintings and works on paper of Keltie Ferris. These very large, high-keyed, color-filled canvases are warmly inviting on first viewing. Bright reds and blues dominate. The arching motif is brushy passages of paint, checkerboard squares, and general noodling around with the brush over airbrushed planes of color. The press release notes,...
A screenwriter bursts into his agent's office. "I have a great idea for a new picture," he enthuses. "We do a remake of The Wiz. Only with white people!" Clichéd Hollywood joke, sure, yet pretty much on point with regard to current trends in art and music. The mash-up, dub, remix, redux, or whatever you want to call it, has replaced the "appropriation" strategies of the 80s. It has morphed into something called Zombie Formalism that for better, or worse, is now seen as a legitimate art movement.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is showing the paintings and works on paper of Keltie Ferris. These very large, high-keyed, color-filled canvases are warmly inviting on first viewing. Bright reds and blues dominate. The arching motif is brushy passages of paint, checkerboard squares, and general noodling around with the brush over airbrushed planes of color. The press release notes,...
- 9/30/2015
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Susan Bee: Doomed to Win/Paintings from the 1980s A.I.R Gallery Through April 27, 2014
Most paintings, the instant you see them, they become familiar and then it's too late.- William Gaddis, The Recognitions
Life is a series of random events. We are in different rooms, with different people, at different times…in art, this is called having different "styles." - Dr. Hope Ardizonne, Anatomy of Art's Murder
Do you see how black the sky is? I wrote it that way. - Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
To be Modern was, sooner or later, to become kitsch -- that is, familiar, a cliché, an agreed-upon collective meaning. Clement Greenberg despised kitsch, yet all the most avant-garde of movements, from the Impressionists to the Pop Artists, eventually ended up, to some degree, kitsch decorations. To be "Post-Modern," especially in the 1980s, was a high-wire act, walking a tightrope between aesthetic...
Most paintings, the instant you see them, they become familiar and then it's too late.- William Gaddis, The Recognitions
Life is a series of random events. We are in different rooms, with different people, at different times…in art, this is called having different "styles." - Dr. Hope Ardizonne, Anatomy of Art's Murder
Do you see how black the sky is? I wrote it that way. - Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park
To be Modern was, sooner or later, to become kitsch -- that is, familiar, a cliché, an agreed-upon collective meaning. Clement Greenberg despised kitsch, yet all the most avant-garde of movements, from the Impressionists to the Pop Artists, eventually ended up, to some degree, kitsch decorations. To be "Post-Modern," especially in the 1980s, was a high-wire act, walking a tightrope between aesthetic...
- 4/19/2014
- by bradleyrubenstein
- www.culturecatch.com
Paul Harrill’s Something, Anything, which co-premiered recently at the Wisconsin Film Festival and the Sarasota Film Festival, is a portrait of a young woman in crisis. Peggy [Ashley Shelton] has already achieved her “stereotypically Southern” (as she’s described in the press kit) ambitions: a successful career in realty, a husband, a house in the suburbs, and a baby on the way. In the opening moments of the film, however, she’s forced to confront her dissatisfaction with it all. A family tragedy sends Peggy on a sojourn that leads her to the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky and, eventually, to a simpler life in a small apartment overlooking the Tennessee River.
Harrill first gained recognition in 2001 when his short film, Gina, An Actress, Age 29, won the top prize at Sundance and enjoyed an impressive run of screenings at international festivals. Starring Amy Hubbard and Frankie Faison (Burrell from The Wire...
Harrill first gained recognition in 2001 when his short film, Gina, An Actress, Age 29, won the top prize at Sundance and enjoyed an impressive run of screenings at international festivals. Starring Amy Hubbard and Frankie Faison (Burrell from The Wire...
- 4/14/2014
- by Darren Hughes
- MUBI
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Aug. 28, 2012
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Microcinema
Beyond Time: William Turnbull is a short documentary film on the life and work of respected the British artist and sculptor, who is recognized as one of the pioneers of modernism in Britain.
Beyond Time, narrated by Jude Law, is the documentary journey into the life and work of the artist William Turnbull, who is recognized as one of the pioneers of modernism in Britain.
Narrated by Jude Law, Beyond Time chronicles Turnbull’s intimate involvement in the critical developments of modern art and explores his experiences in Paris, London and New York where he befriended and worked alongside such artists as Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
The film was produced and co-directed by the artist’s son Alex Turnbull, who as well as being a pioneering British skateboarder and DJ, was also a member of the music group 23 Skidoo,...
Price: DVD $24.95
Studio: Microcinema
Beyond Time: William Turnbull is a short documentary film on the life and work of respected the British artist and sculptor, who is recognized as one of the pioneers of modernism in Britain.
Beyond Time, narrated by Jude Law, is the documentary journey into the life and work of the artist William Turnbull, who is recognized as one of the pioneers of modernism in Britain.
Narrated by Jude Law, Beyond Time chronicles Turnbull’s intimate involvement in the critical developments of modern art and explores his experiences in Paris, London and New York where he befriended and worked alongside such artists as Alberto Giacometti, Richard Hamilton, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman.
The film was produced and co-directed by the artist’s son Alex Turnbull, who as well as being a pioneering British skateboarder and DJ, was also a member of the music group 23 Skidoo,...
- 7/19/2012
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
"I view art as an inspirational tool. People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls." The words aren't those of Gerhard Richter or Joseph Beuys. They're not by Picasso, Mondrian, Malevich, or any other messianic modernist. They come from Thomas Kinkade, the epitome of sentimental, illustrational, conservative art, the self-described "painter of light," who died on Friday at 54. Kinkade, who made dreamy scenes of suburbia, classic cottages, pretty gardens, lighthouses alone on stormy shores, saccharine pictures of small villages, and Christian images celebrating Jesus, poses an interesting thought problem about kitsch and so-called "real art" to the wider art world.Even in the thirties, Clement Greenberg worried about kitsch, the split between popular and avant-garde taste. "The same culture produces a painting by Braque and a Saturday Evening Post cover," he wrote, fretting that "real art would not stand a chance next to...
- 4/9/2012
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
I've only just now caught wind of a one-time-only event that took place in the Port of Tallinn last Thursday, 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero, via Alison Nastasi at Movies.com: "An international collective of directors… contributed their shorts to the single 35mm film anthology that was screened for an audience one time — as part of Estonia's 2011 European Capital of Culture celebration — and then burned to the ground (along with the screen itself). Why, exactly? The project's website describes it as 'flying in the face of the cynicism of marketing, production, business operators, and the moral majority … dedicated to preserving freedom of thought in cinema.'" The roster of participating directors and artists is pretty impressive:
Brian Yuzna (USA), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Aku Louhimies (Finland), Ken Jacobs (USA), Gustav Deutsch (Austria), Tom Tykwer (Germany), Mark Boswell (USA), Malcolm Le Grice (UK), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Bruce McClure (UK), Mika Taanila...
Brian Yuzna (USA), Michael Glawogger (Austria), Aku Louhimies (Finland), Ken Jacobs (USA), Gustav Deutsch (Austria), Tom Tykwer (Germany), Mark Boswell (USA), Malcolm Le Grice (UK), Aki Kaurismäki (Finland), Bruce McClure (UK), Mika Taanila...
- 12/27/2011
- MUBI
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