In London 70 artists were inspired by films and characters from American filmmaker to rebuild and honor the creator of Clockwork Orange and O jos tightly closed
Stanley Kubrick believed that there is something in the human personality that refuses to clear things, something that attracts puzzles, the puzzles , to allegories.
His productions reflect a symbolic language in which form and merge to impact on the viewer. Part of that visible multisensory universe in movies creator of films like The Shining or Clockwork Orange was recreated in the exhibition Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick, which just opened in the art gallery Somerset House in London.
Curated by musician and artist James Lavelle, label founder Mo’Wax and the British band UNKLE, the exhibition brings together the work of 70 contemporary artists, filmmakers and musicians who designed specific works for this project inspired by the films of Kubrick.
Some of the participants in the exhibition are artists Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Carl Craig, Charlotte Colbert, Chris Levine, Jamie Shovlin, Jocelyn Pook, Jonas Burgerts, Marc Quinn and Seamus Farrell. They were invited to recreate part of a movie, scene, character or theme files Kubrick, and provide new perspectives on the works of the master of cinema.
James Lavelle also worked with musicians and composers . creating a soundtrack for some of these facilities in the sample
the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created an installation with texts from Kubrick films based on the language of the filmmaker; British political artist Peter Kennard combined images of characters in the film Strangelove with the current leaders of states in a piece that deals with the nuclear program Trident.
Inspired by the sequence of 2001: a space odyssey , the Doug Foster filmmaker invited with his work visitors to experience an endless tunnel in reference to this film; and British artist Mat Collishaw, meanwhile, will connect the helmet of an astronaut with sights and sounds from another world.
Doug Aitken created Twilight , a payphone presented as reminiscent of a scene from Strangelove , in which Mandrake tries to make a collect call to the US president.
the Londoner Sarah Lucas devised Priapus , a phallic sculpture intended to refer to the murder weapon Clockwork orange , film after whom have been painted an intense all the walls of the exhibition hall orange. This space also has a distribution of rooms and a corridor reminiscent of the scene of The Shining .
In contribution to the sensory experience that will target visitors, designer Azzi Glasser created a fragrance whose bittersweet notes invade the gallery
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