Gus Van Sant
One of independent filmmaking's most authoritative voices, Gus Van Sant is a versatile, multi-faceted director, painter, photographer and screenwriter. Portland urban landscape, desert spaces, intermittent contact, a somewhat altered perception of youth, are all common core elements of his different artistic mediums, inspired by the Beat Generation and its values.
The exhibition opening in Turin at the Mole Antonelliana on 6 October, 2016 to 9 January, 2017, retraces Van Sant's artistic carreer, from his early polaroid images to his watercolors, through his paintings and photographic cut-ups. Paramount, of course, his fiilmmaking, inspired and characterized by the worlds of literature, art and music.
The exhibited works are heterogeneous in nature and unique, original photo shoots, preparatory drawings for his features, unreleased shorts, music videos, makings of and reel editing of the most famous and iconic sequences.
The exhibition is a project of La Cinémathèque française, in coproduction with Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Musée de l’Elysée and the Cinémathèque suisse of Lausanne.
Curated by Matthieu Orleans with the collaboration of Florence Tissot. Coordination at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Grazia Paganelli e Stefano Boni.
One of independent filmmaking's most authoritative voices, Gus Van Sant is a versatile, multi-faceted director, painter, photographer and screenwriter. Portland urban landscape, desert spaces, intermittent contact, a somewhat altered perception of youth, are all common core elements of his different artistic mediums, inspired by the Beat Generation and its values.