Walter Swennen : La langue rouge

Type:

film

Titel:

Walter Swennen : La langue rouge

Jaar:

2016

Onderwerp:

Swennen, Walter
Schilderkunst: 21ste eeuw

Taal:

Onbepaald

Uitgever:

[S.l.] : YC Aligator Film, 2016

Plaatsnummer:

75.039 / SWENNEN W. / 2016 (Kunstenbibliotheek)

Paginering:

1 DVD.

Samenvatting:

Belgian artist Walter Swennen invites us into his workshop for a thoughtful but playful dialogue between the movements of his mind and the matter of his works, between a way of being and a way of painting. Born just post-war, Swennen has been producing a polymorphous and inventive body of work since the 80s, characterised by its independence and its radical experimentation. When words fail and meanings get muddled, painting steps up, making light of the arbitrariness of images and words. Swennen moves from Brussels to New York, and helped by the film’s director and a team of curators of contemporary art, he speaks to his paintings, and they speak back. We are drawn into this painter-philosopher’s wacky world, in which Buster Keaton bumps into Titian, Krazy Cat rides a Dadaesque hobbyhorse, Mickey Mouse puts ears on Mallarmé, and Boris Vian jams with Thelonious Monk. Swennen is a master of not taking himself too seriously, while talking seriously about his art. (provided by publisher)

Nota:

film

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