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DOSSIER a COMPUTER, a CAMERA and a CAT A COMPUTER, A CAMERA AND A CAT 13.09.2019 - 16.11.2019 AGNES` VARDA BARBARA HAMMER JOAN FONTCUBERTA REQUER STAN DOUGLAS TXUSPO POYO DOSSIER a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER Asked about her double status as an artist and filmmaker, about that constant zigzag between filming and photographing, Agnes Varda downplayed a dilemma that she considered false. For both efforts, she said, only three things are needed : “ a computer, a camera and a cat”. Enough with the object and the inspiration, the real and its mystery, the technique and the irrational needed to put together any work. Well, let’s take her phrase as the title of this exhibition. Let’s pay tribute to that statement and use each of these pieces to evaporate the boundaries between one world and another. And it is worth the new territory that we founded, even briefly, after having crossed those borders. The presence of art in the cinema lasts already a hundred years. Suffice it to look at the silent films of Chaplin or Buster Keaton to see reflected the avatars of artists, stubborn and poor, who always tried it for more than always failed. Suffice it to review the protagonism of Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock, Frida Kahlo or Basquiat in the history of cinema. Suffice it to see where this drift has come in a recent installment like The Velvet Buzzsaw. Neither is the opposite way deniable ; the invasion of cinema in art. Because this one is also intense. From Magritte to Dalí, from Warhol to Carlos Saura, from Edward Ruscha to Francis Bacon, the artworld granted a different space to Marilyn Monroe or Mae West, Brigitte Bardot or Mickey Mouse, Mack Sennet or the goings-on of Hollywood. A Computer, A Camera and A Cat belongs to that second line, an exhibition which tends, from a simple display, to probe the appropriation of cinema by art. Although not only in the epidermal, but also in the invisible cinematographic mechanisms that manage to put together each of these pieces that, in principle, do not seem exactly like “cinema”. It is the photograph of Varda herself, which is also a tribute to the Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez. Or Requer invoking Eisenstein and, at the same time, refocusing his account of the Bolshevik revolution. Or Stan Douglas in whom perseveres a filmaker-artist and who had previously re-enact the work of Tomàs Gutiérrez Alea in Borges style, displacing Memory of underdevelopment in time and producing a work that is the same and one at a time. Or Txuspo Poyo turning the cinema into a narrative material and a constructive resource of his work. Or Barbara Hammer, that merges cinema and art video to offer her pioneering stories. Or Joan Fontcuberta capturing, on the one hand, the place of the photographer in pornography and, on the other, the inevitable “pornography” in which photography has fallen. A Computer, a Camera and a Cat is an attempt to host the cinema in art, to slightly remove the status of both and to convert its exhibition into something else. Maybe into a space in between the cinema and the gallery or a collective trailer of upcoming films. Iván de la Nuez, Curator C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER AGNÈS VARDA Ixelles, Belgium, 1928 - Paris, France, 2019 French filmmaker born in 1928, passed in Paris in 2019. Greek father. French mother. Short studies in Paris. Photographer in the fifties. In 1954, she creates a film company CINE-TAMARIS for LA POINTE COURTE. This film gave her the title of “Grand Mother of the French New Wave”. Among 33 short and long, the best known films of Agnès are : 1961 CLÉO DE 5 À 7 - 1985 SANS TOIT NI LOI (VAGABOND) - 1990 JACQUOT DE NANTES (JACQUOT) – 2000 LES GLANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE (THE GLEANERS AND I) – 2008 LES PLAGES D’AGNES (THE BEACHES OF AGNES) – 2017 VISAGES VILLAGES (FACES PLACES) - 2019 VARDA BY AGNES Official selection at Berlinale International Film Festival. In 2003, Agnès Varda launched her third life as a visual artist. Her installations were shown at the Venice Art Biennale (2003), Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris (2006), CAFA Beijing and HUBEI Museum Wuhan, China (2012), LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (2013), Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago (2015), Blum&Poe Gallery New York (2017), Nathalie Obadia Gallery Paris (2018), Pazo da Cultura Pontevedra Spain and Liverpool Biennial (2018), Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, MAMM Moscou and Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris (2019). 1965 : Silver Bear prize at Berlin Film Festival (1965) – 1985 : Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival - August 2014 Léopardo d’Onore at the Locarno Film Festival - May 2015 Palme d’Or d’Honneur at the Cannes Film Festival – September 2017 Grolsch prize from the audience at Toronto Film Festival for best documentary to Faces, Places. November 2017 : Agnès received an honorary Oscar for her career. 2018 : Etoile d’or at the International Film Festival of Marrakech. Agnès Varda Tomas Oliva, sculptor, Havana (Cuba series) 1962 - 1963 Silver print 19,8 x 29,2 cm C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER Agnès Varda Agnès Varda Beauty Contest (Cuba series) Building Manager - Woman sitting with a machine- 1962 - 1963 gun and boy with white shirt, Havana (Cuba series) Silver print 1962 - 1963 14,5 x 21,8 cm - 24 x 31 x 2,3cm Silver print 20,1 x 29,9 cm - 29,5 x 39,5 x 2,3 cm Agnès Varda Agnès Varda Cha-Cha-Cha danced by members of the I.C.A.I.C Children (one eating an ice cream), Marianas, among which Sarita Gomez wearing military clothest Havana (Cuba series) (Cuba series) 1962 - 1963 1962 - 1963 Silver print Silver print 14,7 x 21,9 cm - 28,6 x 35,6 cm 20,7 x 29,8 cm -32,5 x 37,5 x 2,3 cm Agnès Varda Agnès Varda Man with hat and cigar, Havana (Cuba series) On the road between the Sierra Maestra and Santiago de 1962 - 1963 Cuba - Man and child, “Patria o muerte” (Cuba series) Silver print 1962 - 1963 14,5 x 21,8 cm - 24 x 31 x 2,3cm Silver print 20,1 x 29,9 cm - 29,5 x 39,5 x 2,3 cm C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER BARBARA HAMMER Los Angeles, USA, 1939 - New York, USA, 2019 Barbara Hammer was born in Hollywood in 1939. Her documentary and experimental films are considered among the earliest and most extensive representations of lesbian identity, love, and sexuality. Accompanying her career as a filmmaker, Hammer has time and again worked with performance and installation. She has participated in group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial in 1993, the WACK! show at MOCA L.A. and MoMA PS1 in 2007/2008. With film retrospectives at New York’s MoMA in 2010 and the Tate Modern, London, in 2012, the artworld’s interest in Hammer’s work has recently increased. Hammer has been a teacher for many years and held a professorship at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee (CH). She died in 2019. © Barbara Hammer. Courtesy of the estate and Electronic Arts Intermix Barbara Hammer Superdyke 1975 Video, 17:34 min, color, sound, 16 mm film C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER JOAN FONTCUBERTA Barcelona, 1955 Joan Fontcuberta is a renowned conceptual photographer as well as being a writer, editor, curator and teacher, who has played a significant role in the task of achieving international recognition in the favour of the history of Spanish photography. Fontcuberta graduated in Communication at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1977. After working in advertising, he taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona from 1979-1986. He was one of the founders of Photovision magazine, originally launched in 1980, becoming a major publication in the field of European photography. Since 1993 he is professor of Communication Studies at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Among the most representative institutions where his work has been exhibited we find: MACBA (Barcelona), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), CCCB (Barcelona), MNAC (Barcelona), Zabriskie Gallery (New York), the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), Harvard University (USA), MOMA (New York), the Maison Européene de la Photographie (Paris) etc. In 1994 he was ordained Knight of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2011 he won the National Essay Prize Essay in Spain and in 2013 he obtained the prestigious Hasselblad Photography Award. In 2016 he was awarded the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize for his contribution to “the theoretical reflection on the role of images in contemporary culture” with his publication “The fury of images. Notes on post-photography”. Joan Fontcuberta Blow Jup 2019 2 video, 3:06 min, 2 single channel videos, loop and sound Ed. 5 C/HERNANI 21 | 20004 | SAN SEBASTIÁN | SPAIN | +34 943 435 186 | [email protected] | WWW.CIBRIANGALLERY.COM a COMPUTER, a CAMERA anD a CAT DOSSIER RENIER QUER FIGUEREDO - REQUER La Habana, 1983 He was born in Havana, Cuba (1983) and has exhibited at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), the Center for the Development of Visual Arts (Cuba) or the Havana Biennial.
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