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| ART AND SURROUNDINGS |
| 8.30 p.m. |
| Ettore Spalletti |
| Pappi Corsicato, Italy, 2008, Artecinema Produzioni22' |
| Ettore Spalletti’s off-screen voice accompanies us on a voyage in time where his childhood memories, including that of a car race he used to watch pass through his small home-town of Cappelle sul Tavo in Abruzzo, have blended together with his reflections upon today’s world, painting and colour. His concept of painting is one in which colour, with its tactile and visual properties, invades space to define an ambience or a landscape. The film features the most significant works of this artist such as his installation at the Venice Biennale in 1995, the Salle des Fêtes in Strasbourg, the Raymond Poincaré Hospital morgue in Garches, the installation at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples in 1999 and the Pescara Court House fountain. Archive materials and a moving testimony by the artist’s mother serve to create an intimate, never before published portrayal of Ettore Spalletti. |
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| ART AND SURROUNDINGS |
| 9.00 p.m. |
| Ernesto Neto au Panthéon |
| Gilles Coudert, France, 2008, a.p.r.e.s.10' |
| In 2006 Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto was invited to Paris for the Festival d’Automne to create a monumental installation in the heart of the Pantheon, the emblematic building which has been the burial place for great men of the French Republic for more than two centuries. Since 1995, the Foucault pendulum has once again been located at the Pantheon in commemoration of the experiment conducted by scientist Léon Foucault in 1851 demonstrating the rotation of the Earth. Ernesto Neto, who represented Brazil at the 2001 Venice Biennale, has become a fundamental figure on the youthful Brazilian creative scene. For the Pantheon, he envisioned an enormous anthropomorphic work, whose name Leviathan Thot, is in reference to the Egyptian divinity Thot in the Book of Job. This hybrid creature, made of tulle and polystyrene, floats beneath the dome of the monument. Ernesto Neto expounds upon an analysis of the site and explains of his ideas and deep-seated motivations. |
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| 9.15 p.m. |
| Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine |
| Marion Cajori, Amei Wallach, USA, 2008, The Art Kaleidoscope Foundation99' |
| This film is a journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. There is no separation between her life as an artist and the memories and emotions that affect her everyday life. As an artist she has been, for six decades, at the forefront of successive new developments, but always on her own powerfully inventive and disquieting terms. At the age of 71, in 1982, she became the first woman to be honored with a major retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. In the decades since, she has created her most powerful and persuasive work. Amei Wallach notes: “We filmed intense, and sometimes hilarious, encounters with Louise and her work in both her Brooklyn studio and Manhattan home starting in 1993. We videotaped conversations where she trusted us with the childhood sources of her pain and invited us into the ritualistic process by which her memories become embodied in objects and installations”. |
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