07 October 2005
Hi everyone - see the below about Warhol's Empire - further to Emmanuel's comments in our seminar yesterday you can go and see it for yourselves! I certainly will - sounds spectacular.
Louise
WARHOL’S EMPIRE FILM
IN SPECTACULAR SOUTH BANK PREMIÈRE
'I prefer making films to making paintings because it is easier' ANDY WARHOL
Described as his ‘first Superstar’, Andy Warhol’s epic film Empire (1964) will be shown publicly in its entirety for the first time in Britain this October, as part of the Hayward Gallery’s ambitious new exhibition Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye.
The full eight hours will be projected onto the exterior riverfront façade of the National Theatre on the four Friday nights in October, beginning at 5pm as the sun begins to set and ending at 1am.
Filmed from 8.06pm to 2.42am on 25-26 July 1964, Warhol’s Empire consists of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building taken from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building. A picture postcard image transferred to film, it captures an era in which its subject was the tallest building in the world and the first to be floodlit, its flashy appearance dominating the New York skyline.
The film consists of several one-hundred-foot rolls of film, each separated from the next by a flash of light, that show a city as it settles into the night. The distinctive architecture of Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre offers a dramatic setting for the screening, with the many stepped terraces forming a kind of auditorium from which the Empire State Building will appear superimposed on the London skyline.
Clare Carolin, Exhibition Curator for Universal Experience, says: ‘We’re excited to be showing Warhol’s film to a British audience in such a spectacular setting and pleased that so many people will witness these free screenings, even if they don’t necessarily know they are seeing a Warhol film. Empire raises many issues relating to time and space that are also explored in the Universal Experience exhibition, and I hope visitors will come away feeling that they have been part of a unique tourist experience’.
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, is the Hayward Gallery’s latest exhibition, exploring our experiences of travel and tourism through the eyes of 50 major contemporary artists, including Doug Aitken, Jeff Koons and Tacita Dean. Opening on 6 October 2005, it brings together large-scale installations, sculptures and more intimate photographs, video footage, and films to address issues ranging from spectacle and authenticity to history, souvenirs, and anthropology. It has been organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and curated by Francesco Bonami, who also curated the International Art Exhibition at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
These unique screenings of Warhol’s Empire have been made possible by The Elephant Trust.
Screening of Andy Warhol’s Empire on the National Theatre flytower, facing the river
Friday 7 October, 5pm – 1am PREMIÈRE
Friday 14 October, 5pm – 1am
Friday 21 October, 5pm – 1am
Friday 28 October, 5pm – 1am
Opening on 6 October 2005, Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye is an ambitious new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery exploring the phenomenon of international visual artists whose work responds to their experience of travelling and living within various cultures. For further information visit www.hayward.org.uk
Louise
WARHOL’S EMPIRE FILM
IN SPECTACULAR SOUTH BANK PREMIÈRE
'I prefer making films to making paintings because it is easier' ANDY WARHOL
Described as his ‘first Superstar’, Andy Warhol’s epic film Empire (1964) will be shown publicly in its entirety for the first time in Britain this October, as part of the Hayward Gallery’s ambitious new exhibition Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye.
The full eight hours will be projected onto the exterior riverfront façade of the National Theatre on the four Friday nights in October, beginning at 5pm as the sun begins to set and ending at 1am.
Filmed from 8.06pm to 2.42am on 25-26 July 1964, Warhol’s Empire consists of one stationary shot of the Empire State Building taken from the 44th floor of the Time-Life Building. A picture postcard image transferred to film, it captures an era in which its subject was the tallest building in the world and the first to be floodlit, its flashy appearance dominating the New York skyline.
The film consists of several one-hundred-foot rolls of film, each separated from the next by a flash of light, that show a city as it settles into the night. The distinctive architecture of Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre offers a dramatic setting for the screening, with the many stepped terraces forming a kind of auditorium from which the Empire State Building will appear superimposed on the London skyline.
Clare Carolin, Exhibition Curator for Universal Experience, says: ‘We’re excited to be showing Warhol’s film to a British audience in such a spectacular setting and pleased that so many people will witness these free screenings, even if they don’t necessarily know they are seeing a Warhol film. Empire raises many issues relating to time and space that are also explored in the Universal Experience exhibition, and I hope visitors will come away feeling that they have been part of a unique tourist experience’.
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, is the Hayward Gallery’s latest exhibition, exploring our experiences of travel and tourism through the eyes of 50 major contemporary artists, including Doug Aitken, Jeff Koons and Tacita Dean. Opening on 6 October 2005, it brings together large-scale installations, sculptures and more intimate photographs, video footage, and films to address issues ranging from spectacle and authenticity to history, souvenirs, and anthropology. It has been organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and curated by Francesco Bonami, who also curated the International Art Exhibition at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
These unique screenings of Warhol’s Empire have been made possible by The Elephant Trust.
Screening of Andy Warhol’s Empire on the National Theatre flytower, facing the river
Friday 7 October, 5pm – 1am PREMIÈRE
Friday 14 October, 5pm – 1am
Friday 21 October, 5pm – 1am
Friday 28 October, 5pm – 1am
Opening on 6 October 2005, Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye is an ambitious new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery exploring the phenomenon of international visual artists whose work responds to their experience of travelling and living within various cultures. For further information visit www.hayward.org.uk
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