Cold, sweet and sour smells and games perspective are the sensations you experience the public multisensory show “Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick”, in which 70 artists from around the world exhibit the works that inspired them films by acclaimed director cinema.
The art gallery Somerset House in London today unveiled this exhibition, which will open to the public from July 6 to August 24, where artists, filmmakers and contemporary musicians respond with music , perfumes, sculptures and installations to what they experienced after seeing films like “2001: a space Odyssey” ( “2001: a space Odyssey”) and “Lolita”.
In a space dominated by the intense orange hallmark of “A Clockwork Orange” ( “A Clockwork Orange”), visitors will visit this exhibition unfolds as various hotel rooms and even it has a hallway that mimics the hexagonal pattern unforgettable film “the Shining” ( “the Shining”).
Among a total of 45 pieces, the exhibition’s curator, creator of the Mo’Wax record, James Lavelle, he told Efe that his goal was to make a “multisensory” review what has led Kubrick to the current cultural group.
Five years after the idea came to his head, asked colleagues who expressly create material for this exhibition, in which he has participated.
Lavelle signing with artist John Isaacs an installation in which two giant teddy bears become the characters of “Lolita” and “A Clockwork Orange” ( “A Clockwork Orange “) to dramatize the loss of innocence and abuse of violence, while a bittersweet fragrance designer Azzi Glasser invades the room.
The other commissioner, the British writer James Putnam, told Efe that his goal was “to make the show a movie” that would meet “the mind of Kubrick” and why its “as cinematic presentations, which combines sex and history” but also war and human cruelty.
Surprised as “checked failures” of his work, the artist Toby Dye confessed to Efe that his desire is that his piece “connect with the public at thirty seconds.”
The filmmaker was based on long zooms “Barry Lyndon” to shoot four scenes that are repeated in a loop and in which participated the actor Aidan Gillen, famous for his role as ” pinky “in” Game of Thrones “(” Game of Thrones “).
To translate into reality the symmetry and symbolism typical of Kubrick and inspired by a scene from “Dr. Strangelove” ( “Red Phone ?, Dr. Strangelove”), the multimedia artist Doug Aitken placed a phone booth with an incandescent glow amid a room covered with mirrors, in which the device is multiplied infinitely.
The visitor will see as a challenge to your visual perception LED technology Canadian Chris Levine, who projected a self-portrait of Kubrick intermittently through a thin line of light.
The Londoner Peter Kennard offers insights into the political facet of the filmmaker, through a set of photographs that juxtaposes the characters of “Dr.Strangelove” with the faces of world leaders such as Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and David Cameron, and nuclear weapons.
In a room with a low temperature, the audience will face a waxwork of Kubrick Paul Fryer, posing frozen in a freezer filmmaker.
In turn, also contemplate a camera that breathes and Basil, the snake protagonist of “A Clockwork Orange”, screwed into a triangular support.
One of the key pieces is the installation of American Joseph Kosuth in the “ladder Nelson”, known for its snail shape where lines of the script of the film are played “The Shining “, as the famous quote” Give me the bat, Wendy “
the Commissioners also highlighted the contribution of British filmmaker Doug Foster, who was inspired by one of the moments of” 2001 : A Space Odyssey “to lift a giant screen projecting a tunnel without end.
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