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From the Black Swan Exhibition – Regen Projects

admin — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:23:27 +0000

Richard Phillips

Tim Burton: Modern Painters Magazine

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:27:26 +0000

An article on Tim Burton appears in November ‘Modern Painters’ magazine. You can get the entire magazine in digital format or you can read the Tim Burton article online at Artinfo.

Frieze: Life in Film

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:35:31 +0000

Frieze Magazine runs an ongoing series asking artists and filmmakers to list the movies that have influenced their practice. Below is an excerpt from Peter Doig’s segment:

“A lot of people have assumed my paintings are influenced by or based on films, but it’s not that literal. I’ve directly referenced only one film still in my work, a figure in a canoe on a lake taken from Friday the 13th (1980, directed by Sean S. Cunningham). Of course, all artists are interested in film – I don’t know one that doesn’t have an opinion about music or movies. Cinema is, after all, the most important art form of our time.”

Peter Doig - Canoe Lake

Five Films that influenced Gregory Crewdson

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:05:01 +0000

Brief Encounter by Gregory Crewdson

From Five in Focus interview with Gregory Crewdson, here are the five films that influenced him as a photographer.
1. Vertigo
2. Night of the Hunter
3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
4. Blue Velvet
5. Safe
To read the full article click here

Chris Chang on Miguel Calderon's Bad Route

admin — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:07:53 +0000

Bad Route by Miguel Calderon

Chris Chang, editor of Film Comment writes an article on Mexican artist Miguel Calderon, including quotes from Wes Anderson who used his paintings in his film The Royal Tenenbaums . Calderon created the image then found a portrait painter to reproduce the image. Here is an excerpt from the article:
Anderson and co-writer Wilson considered turning Bad Route into an actual stunt the Tenenbaum clan would perform onscreen: “We thought they would have flashlights and ride on motorcycles and wear masks, playing a game.” Ultimately they never staged it. “We realized it didn’t make any sense.” In a neat bit of reflexive art history, after he bought the painting Anderson discovered it had been staged before it was painted, and, shockingly, wasn’t even painted by the artist. Calderon dressed and positioned his “cast,” photographed them, and then, after a long and extensive search, found a portrait painter with the style he was looking for to copy the photo. A few people, including Anderson, wondered why Calderon didn’t paint the thing himself. “Too much art school,” he responds. “If I did it, it would be too artsy. I wanted something camp. Less believable.” He realizes some find this “hands-off” approach to art making somewhat suspect. “People don’t understand,” he says. “The funny thing is, it’s absolutely like filmmaking.” Read the complete article here.