PRESS RELEASE MIAMI BEACH | NOVEMBER 11 | 2014
Film: Art Basel announces 2014 program for Miami Beach
From December 3 through 7, 2014, Art Basel’s Film sector will include over 80 films and videos selected by David Gryn, director of London's Artprojx. In addition, This Brunner, the film connoisseur and long-time Art Basel collaborator has selected the feature-length film Big Eyes (2014), directed by Tim Burton, for a special screening at the Colony Theatre on Friday, December 5. Gryn’s program of film and video works, drawn from the show's participating galleries, includes work by Charles Atlas, Martin Creed, Susan Hiller, Parker Ito, Mark Leckey, Babette Mangolte, Takeshi Murata, Laure Prouvost, Alex Prager, Mark Wallinger, and a tribute to Harun Farocki, who passed away this July. In conjunction with the popular outdoor screenings in SoundScape Park on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, an extended film program will be presented within Art Basel’s newly designed film viewing room inside the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Directed and produced by Tim Burton, Big Eyes (2014) tells the true story of one of the most epic art frauds in history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, painter Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) revolutionized the commercialization of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. Yet, the truth would eventually be discovered: Keane’s works were actually not created by him, but by his wife, Margaret Keane (Amy Adams). Big Eyes (2014) centers on Margaret’s awakening as an artist, the phenomenal success of her paintings, and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, who was catapulted to international fame while taking credit for her work. The feature film has been selected by Zurich collector This Brunner, a curator of Art Basel's Film sectors since 1992. Big Eyes (2014) will be shown at the Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach at 8.30pm on Friday, December 5, 2014. Entry is free, but seating is limited. The film will be on general release in the United States from December 25.
Curated around the notion of Playfulness, David Gryn’s fourth selection for Film will feature a wide array of film and video works: from Susan Hiller’s scientific Resounding (Infrared) (2014) to Atsushi Kaga’s dark and quirky 2007 series of hand-drawn animations and Hans Op de Beeck’s sublime Parade (2012). A highlight of the program will pair Charles Atlas’s 1986 film Ex Romance, and a new Miami Beach-specific edit of Parker Ito’s Wipeout XL. Artist Tabor Robak and David Gryn will co-curate a series of films addressing the unearthly reverberations of the Internet, gaming, and digital magical- realism, featuring work by younger artists Jon Rafman and Oliver Laric, alongside a tribute to the late Harun Farocki. The program will also look at dance in film with works by Dara Friedman, Rashaad Newsome and the seminal filmmaker Babette Mangolte.
Every evening from 6pm to the start of the first film screening, sound works by Larry Achiampong, Jennie C. Jones, Stephen Vitiello and Raed Yassin will be presented on the state-of-the arts surround sound system in SoundScape Park.
Art Basel, whose Lead Partner is UBS, has expanded its commitment to showing diverse film and video works by designing a dedicated film viewing room within the Miami Beach Convention Center’s exhibition halls. An extended selection of over 100 selected works,
also curated by Gryn, will be presented for individual, viewer-directed private screening. Access is free with an entry ticket to the show.
On Friday, December 5, at 2pm, Art Basel's Salon program will feature Playfulness: artists as online gamers, surfers and armchair digital revolutionaries, a talk between David Gryn and the artists Tabor Robak and Rachel Rose, moderated by the curator Chrissie Iles. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon.
For the full gallery list and extended film program, please visit: artbasel.com/miamibeach/film.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Daily (December 3 – 7) Miami Beach Convention Center Film Library In conjunction with the outdoor program, over 100 selected works will be presented on six touch-screen monitors within the newly designed Film Library. Access with a show entrance ticket.
Nightly (December 3 – 6) SoundScape Park Evening Film Program Outdoor screenings will take place in SoundScape Park on the 7,000-square-foot outdoor projection wall of the New World Center, a three-minute walk from the Miami Beach Convention Center. Admission to Film at SoundScape Park is free. Visitors are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs.
Every evening from 6pm to the start of the first film screening, sound works by different artists will be presented in SoundScape Park:
Wednesday: Stephen Vitiello, Scraped and Bowed, 2013-2014, Courtesy of the artist Thursday: Larry Achiampong, The Mogya Project, 2014, Courtesy of the artist Friday: Jennie C. Jones, From the Low to Higher Resonance, 2011-2014, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Saturday: Raed Yassin, The Deaf Oud, 2010), Kalfayan Galleries
Free public access, seating is limited – bring a blanket or lawn chair.
Friday, December 5 | 8.30pm | Colony Theatre Special Film Screening Big Eyes, 2014, by Tim Burton Running time 108' The feature film selected by curated This Brunner will be shown at the Colony Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. The screening is followed by a panel discussion with key figures in the film's production. Entry is free, but seating is limited.
DETAILED FILM PROGRAM CURATED BY DAVID GRYN
Wednesday, December 3 | 8pm | Playfulness Running time 65' In this program the intelligence, wit, and humor of artists such as Turner Prize winners Mark Leckey, Elizabeth Price, Martin Creed, and Laure Prouvost will be punctuated, among others, by the brief digitally animated paintings of Hayal Pozanti and the slapstick human sculptural intervention of Wood & Harrison.
Hayal Pozanti, A Lifetime of Likes, 2014, 25", Jessica Silverman Gallery Wood & Harrison, Board, 1993, 3'02'', Carroll / Fletcher Alex Rodríguez, Nocturno 2, 2013, 3'59'', Casas Riegner Hayal Pozanti, IP Overlords, 2014, 12", Jessica Silverman Gallery
Mark Leckey, Pearl Vision, 2012, 3'10'', Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Cabinet, Galerie Buchholz Wood & Harrison, Headstand, 1995, 1'02'', Carroll / Fletcher Brian Bress, The Portrait Room, 2006, 4'10'', Cherry and Martin Hayal Pozanti, Mobile Blinders, 2014, 15", Jessica Silverman Gallery Elizabeth Price, The Tent, 2012, 12', MOT International Rachel Rose, A Minute Ago, 2014, 8'43'', Courtesy of the artist Hayal Pozanti, Virtual Diaspora, 2014, 22", Jessica Silverman Gallery Camille Henrot, Coupé/Décalé, 2010, 5'20'', Metro Pictures, kamel mennour Wood & Harrison, Device, 1996, 2'45'', Carroll / Fletcher Tomislav Gotovac, Feeling 7, 2000, 4'06'', Alexander Gray Associates, galerie frank elbaz Hayal Pozanti, Empathy Box, 2014, 22", 2014, 25", Jessica Silverman Gallery Taro Izumi, Steak House, 2009, 3'51'', Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Laure Prouvost, For A Better Life, 2006, 1'52'', MOT International Wood & Harrison, Three-Legged, 1997, 3'39'', Carroll / Fletcher Martin Creed, Work No. 670 Orson and Sparky, 2007, 4'16'', Hauser & Wirth
Wednesday, December 3 | 9pm | Armchair Surfers Running time 60' The artists in this program place a mirror in front of us – the Armchair Surfers of the 21st century – to explore the impact of an all-encompassing digitized world on humanity. In these works humor, titillation, coolness, memories, self-absorption and otherwise quirky reflections merge with our daily consumption of social media.
CAR (Conceptual Artists Research/Michelle Grabner), Pool, 1996, 3'10'', James Cohan Gallery Saya Woolfalk, ChimaTek: Hybridization Machine, 2013, 3'40'', Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects Chris Doyle (with music by Joe Arcidiacono), Waste_Generation, 2010-2011, 6'29'', Andrew Edlin Gallery CAR (Conceptual Artists Research/Michelle Grabner), Egg Toss, 1996, 1'52'', James Cohan Gallery Charles Richardson, Rehearsal (Miami edit), 2014, 4’, Courtesy of the artist Nate Boyce, Scroll Sequence, 2014, 5'33'', Altman Siegel Dashiell Manley, Untitled, 2011, 7'49'', Jessica Silverman Gallery Florian Meisenberg, You are certainly entitled to this opinion, 2014, 7'40'', Wentrup Leo Gabin, Oh Baby, 2013, 2'49'', Elizabeth Dee, Peres Projects CAR (Conceptual Artists Research/Michelle Grabner) and David Robbins, Appleton East High School Band, 1999, 1'33'', James Cohan Gallery Clunie Reid, Wet Dave (boom boom), 2009, 5'34'', MOT International Saya Woolfalk, Chimera, 2013, 2'49'', Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects Jayson Musson, Art Thoughtz with Hennessy Youngman: Beuys-Z, 2011, 5'11'',Salon 94
Wednesday, December 3 | 10pm | Ex-Romance Running time 64' Charles Atlas has been a pioneering figure in film and video for over four decades, working with some of the most seminal, groundbreaking choreographers of our time, such as Michael Clark and the late Merce Cunningham. In this program, Atlas’s film Ex- Romance (1986) will be paired with a special 2014 Miami-edit of Wipeout XL by
Parker Ito, heightening the common ground between the artists' incongruous interests – from Tarot to foot-fetishes.
Charles Atlas, Ex Romance, 1986, 48'23'', Luhring Augustine Parker Ito, Wipeout XL (Miami Beach), 2014 15’44”, Courtesy of the artist
Thursday, December 4 | 10pm | The Digital Revolutionaries Running time 67' Co-curated by the artist Tabor Robak and David Gryn, this program will address the unearthly reverberations of the Internet, gaming, and digital magical-realism. The evening will conclude with a tribute to the seminal filmmaker Harun Farocki, whose work Parallel II (2012) examines the uncanny visual world-making of digital gaming.
Tabor Robak (with music by Fatima Al Qadiri), Vatican Vibes, 2011, 5'16'', team (gallery, inc.) Jon Rafman, Popova-Lissitzky Office Complex, 2013, 2'10'', Courtesy of the artist Jon Rafman, Juan Gris Dream House, 2013, 2', Courtesy of the artist Tabor Robak, 20XX, 2013, 6'43'', team (gallery, inc.) Tabor Robak (with music by Gatekeeper), EXO (long version), 2012, 35'45'', team (gallery, inc.) Oliver Laric, Versions 2012, 2012, 6'17'', Tanya Leighton Harun Farocki, Parallel II, 2012, 9’, Greene Naftali Gallery, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
Friday, December 5 | 8pm | Radio Ga Ga Running time 62' Radio broadcasting – the audible transmission of information through radio waves – is a powerful medium that has long influenced human events. Concepts of radio and waves will be explored in this program, bookended by works that draw from broadcasts that go unnoticed, such as Bill Balaskas’ cobbled together news bulletins and Susan Hiller’s translations of radio frequencies emitted by the Big Bang.
Bill Balaskas, Info, 2011, 4'30'', Kalfayan Galleries Frank Heath, Invasive Species, 2012, 11'30'', Simone Subal Gallery Wagner Malta Tavares, Ondas Curtas, 2013, 8'52'', Galeria Marilia Razuk Vartan Avakian, ShortWave / LongWave, 2009, 7'13'', Kalfayan Galleries Susan Hiller, Resounding (Infrared), 2014, 30', Timothy Taylor Gallery
Friday, December 5 | 9pm | The Night of Forevermore Running time 65' The Night of Forevermore focuses on artists who employ cinematic and theatrical tropes: Ciprian Mureşan reconsiders Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist classic Un Chien Andalou (1929) through the blockbuster animation Shrek (2001), while Jose Dávila applies his signature cutout method to Sergio Leone’s classic Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966).
Ciprian Mureşan, Un chien andalou, 2004, 51'', David Nolan Gallery Tomislav Gotovac, Feeling 4, 2000, 3', Alexander Gray Associates, galerie frank elbaz Olaf Breuning, The Apple, 2006, 11'05'', Metro Pictures Jose Dávila, The Stranger, the Stranger, and the Stranger, 2014, 2'56'', Galería OMR Laure Prouvost, OWT, 2007, 3'20'', MOT International Maya Watanabe, A-PHAN-OUSIA, 2008, 4'45'', 80m2 Livia Benavides Tim Davis, La La Traviata, 2013, 12'05'', Van Doren Waxter Marnie Weber, The Night of Forevermore, 2012, 14'45'', Simon Lee Gallery
Hans Op de Beeck, Parade, 2012, 11'25'', Galleria Continua Alex Prager, Sunday, 2010, 1'08'', Lehmann Maupin
Saturday, December 6 | 8pm | Rites of Spring Running time 62' From historical positions, such as Babette Mangolte’s 1978 collaboration with dancer Trisha Brown, to recent works such as Rashaad Newsome’s 2014 KNOT, this program will explore the radical implications of dance. Both Miami-based artist Dara Friedman and the Canadian-born Marcel Dzama were inspired by historical dance pieces: Igor Stravinsky's ballet Rites of Spring and Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet. Five short animations by the young Greek artist Rania Bellou will punctuate the screenings.
Rania Bellou, Punctuated Hi/stories, 2014, 2’58”, Kalfayan Galleries Dara Friedman, Rite, 2014, 4'10'', Gavin Brown’s enterprise Pilar Albarracín, Musical Dancing Spanish Doll, 2013, 3'25'', Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Rania Bellou, Exercising Catching an Apple, 2008, 12”, Kalfayan Galleries Marcel Dzama, A Game of Chess, 2011, 14'02'', Sies + Höke, David Zwirner Ana Roldán, Construction concerned with the relationship between dissimilar emotional values in a composition with black and white, 2008, 2'12'', Instituto de visión Rania Bellou, Tight Rope / Prison Privacy, 2008, 39”, Kalfayan Galleries Brian Bress, Rock Your Body, 2005, 4'45'', Cherry and Martin Rashaad Newsome, KNOT, 2014, 4', Marlborough Gallery Rania Bellou, Flying Go Around, 2011, 21”, Kalfayan Galleries Dara Friedman, Ishmael and the Well of Ancient Mysteries, 2014, 12’, Gavin Brown’s enterprise Babette Mangolte, Trisha Brown WATER MOTOR, 1978, 7'55'', Broadway 1602, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Rania Bellou, Trampoline / The Objectivity of Unprejudiced Witness, 2011, 22”, Kalfayan Galleries Liu Chuang, Untitled (Dancing Partners), 5'14'', 2010, Salon 94
Saturday, December 6 | 9pm | The Magic of Things Running time 70' This program is inspired by and will feature Mark Wallinger's The Magic of Things (2010), a video of edited scenes from the popular 1970s TV sitcom Bewitched, in which everyday objects such as knives or glasses are magically moved by the good witch Samantha. Films with a similarly playful approach will be presented, interspersed with hand-drawn animations from the Japanese artist Atsushi Kaga.
Atsushi Kaga, Hole 1, 2007, 42'', mother’s tankstation David Shrigley, Ones, 2009, 2'24'', Stephen Friedman Gallery Brian Alfred, Under Thunder and Fluorescent Lights, 2014, 3', Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe Atsushi Kaga, Hole 2, 2007, 28'', mother’s tankstation Hiraki Sawa, Hako, 2006, 4', James Cohan Gallery Takeshi Murata, OM Rider, 2013, 11'39'', Salon 94, Ratio 3 Atsushi Kaga, Hole 3, 2007, 28'', mother’s tankstation Robin Rhode, Paper Planes, 2009, 2'40'', Lehmann Maupin Theo Michael, The Splendour of the Heavens, 2008, 10', Galería OMR David Shrigley, The Artist, 2012, 2'24'', Stephen Friedman Gallery Hiraki Sawa, Migration, 2003, 6', James Cohan Gallery Mark Wallinger, The Magic of Things, 2010, 10'32'', Galerie Krinzinger Atsushi Kaga, Hole 4, 2007, 31'', mother’s tankstation
Cécile B. Evans, The Brightness, 2014, 4’48’’, Courtesy of the artist Brent Green, To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given, 2011-2012, 10'15'', Andrew Edlin Gallery Atsushi Kaga, Hole 5, 2007, 41'', mother’s tankstation
NOTES TO EDITORS
About the Curators
This Brunner This Brunner has over 40 years of experience in the film industry in Switzerland and abroad. He is a member of the European Film Academy and the Swiss Film Academy, and a veteran observer of the world cinema and the international film festival scene. He has been a film curator for Art Basel since 1992.
David Gryn David Gryn is the founder and director of London's Artprojx, screening, curating, promoting and lecturing on artists' moving image and other art projects, working with leading contemporary artists, art galleries, museums, art fairs, art schools and charities worldwide. About Art Basel Art Basel stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the world, each show's exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new ideas, new inspiration and new contacts in the art world.
Partners UBS is Art Basel's global Lead Partner, supporting all three shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. The firm has been the Lead Partner of Art Basel for the past 20 years and of Art Basel in Miami Beach since the show's inception in 2002. In 2013 UBS extended its partnership to a global level, also becoming the Lead Partner for Art Basel's show in Hong Kong. UBS has a rich history of actively supporting cultural and artistic endeavours across the world, with a focus on promotion, collection and educational activities in the world of contemporary art.
Associate Partners Davidoff, the prestigious Swiss cigar brand; Audemars Piguet, the independent high-end watch manufacturer; and Absolut, who is also supporting Art Basel's Conversations series; support Art Basel across its three shows. Associate Partner NetJets, the world leader in private aviation, continues its support of the Miami Beach show. The VIP car service is by BMW. The show's Media Partners are The Financial Times and The Miami Herald. The show is supported by the Miami Beach Visitor and Convention Authority. For further information on Art Basel's partners, please visit artbasel.com/partners.
Important Dates for Media
Preview (by Invitation only) Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 11am to 8pm
Vernissage (by Invitation only) Thursday, December 4, 2014, 11am to 3pm
Public Days Thursday, December 4, 2014, 3pm to 8pm Friday, December 5, 2014, 12noon to 8pm Saturday, December 6, 2014, 12noon to 8pm Sunday, December 7, 2014, 12noon to 6pm
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