Videos about art of Gormley, Jaar, and Richter
May 28, 2012
The opening of new exhibitions presents a perfect opportunity to share these fascinating videos relating to contemporary artists – Antony Gormley, Alfredo Jaar and Gerhard Richter – and their artwork in the McMaster Museum of Art collection.
Proof 1983, an early single lead bodycase work by artist Antony Gormley (British, b. 1950), is now on display in the exhibition The Last Things Before the Last. The 1988 documentary below, including discussions with the artist, looks at Gormley’s work, his process and the bodycase series in particular.
McMaster’s owns two paintings by Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932) – a portrait, Isa 1990, and a mirror – and both are on view now in separate exhibitions at the Museum of Art (one in Painting Beyond a body of views and the other in The Last Things Before the Last).
In this 2009 video, Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones discusses Gerhard Richter’s photorealist portraits:
In the following MIT Visual Arts Program lecture, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956) speaks about his practice in zones of emergency, like Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship, and in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide. At 14:40 minutes, he speaks about the photographic box series and Benjamin specifically, which is on view in the exhibition Painting Beyond a body of views.
http://blip.tv/play/AavgIAI?p=1
More videos to come soon!
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