Date: 12 November 2003 | Season: LUX Salon
LUX SALON: HANNES SCHÜPBACH: FILM SOLO
Wednesday 12 November 2003, at 7:30pm
London LUX
The Swiss artist Hannes Schüpbach creates silent colour films that evoke an experience similar to poetry. He composes and varies images of places, people, and gestures, deriving from a specific living context in each film. The subtlety and distance of his images invite the eye to ‘listen’ very carefully. The program shows the gradual development of the artist’s film language, based on the nature of the film image as both trace of reality and potential metaphor. Hannes Schüpbach has been working with film, parallel to his large painting suites, since the early 1990s.
Hannes Schüpbach, Portrait Mariage, 2000, colour, silent, 9 min
Hannes Schüpbach, Spin, 2001, colour, silent, 12 min
Hannes Schüpbach, Toccata, 2002, colour, silent, 28 min
PROGRAMME NOTES
LUX SALON: HANNES SCHÜPBACH: FILM SOLO
Wednesday 12 November 2003, at 7:30pm
London LUX
PORTRAIT MARIAGE (filmed in the Val Bregaglia, Switzerland)
Hannes Schüpbach, Switzerland, 2000, colour, silent 9 min
Portrait Mariage turns the staging of a rite of passage into an allusively layered narrative. The film distils a sensual remembrance by the filmmaker’s intense participation and his spontaneous aesthetic choices.
SPIN (filmed in Winterthur, Switzerland)
Hannes Schüpbach, Switzerland, 2001, colour, silent, 12 min
Spin reflects the beauty of the transitory and evokes the regret connect to its passing. The artist’s ageing mother, at the centre of this film, marks the unique presence of the single human consciousness. (Spin – the inherent turning momentum of electrons.)
TOCCATA (filmed in Genoa, Italy, 1999-2001)
Hannes Schüpbach, Switzerland, 2002, colour, silent, 28 min
Toccata develops the ‘touch of the place’ through a direct encounter with the seemingly familiar elements of a house and city. The image recreates an inner experience by the use of a wide range of stylised movements and colourings. “Il tocco means not only touch; it can also mean a small quantity, a single brush stroke in painting, the striking of a bell or piano keys.” Toccata was screened at the 2002 New York Film Festival’s ‘Views from the Avant-Garde’.
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