Film Screening: Jasper Johns Event

Begleitend zur Ausstellung “Jasper Johns: Regrets”

In the course of “Jasper Johns: Regrets” at the Upper Belvedere, the Blickle Cinema is dedicating an evening to the great artist. Since the 1960s Jasper Johns has been reluctant to give interviews, so this special footage will give insights into rarely noticed spheres of the artist. Encounter in these 2 hours the artist at work, the engagement with his surrounding and fellow artists and friends and the dynamic atmosphere of that significant time.

Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint von Rick Tejada-Flores, 1989, VHS, 56‘, Englisch

Filmed at the Venice Biennale in 1988, where Johns held a retrospective exhibition and received the Grand Prize, this documentary provides a rare look at the artist’s career. It investigates the influences in his work, from his early day in New York, where with fellow artist and friend Robert Rauschenberg he was hired to dress windows for Tiffany’s, to the refinement of his ideas and his interest in the philosopher Wittgenstein. It includes both new and vintage conversations with the painter and footage showing him at work in his studio.

Jasper Johns: Take an Object von Hans Namuth und Judith Wechsler, 1990, Englisch

The film begins in 1972, tracing Jasper Johns over the next eighteen years. His Untitled, 1973, with its cross-hatching, flagstones, and anatomical parts become recurrent motifs, as Johns begins to imbed skulls and severed arms in them. The paintings become more personal as Johns gradually “drops the reserve” in his recent series. The film culminates with Johns working on the final state of the etching based on The Seasons. There is no narration as such. Jasper Johns speaks at various points, John Cage reads Johns’ statements, then rearranged through a computerized method based on the I Ching, curator Mark Rosenthal comments on several stages of Johns’ work, Christopher Ricks reads passages from Beckett; with music by Janis Joplin and John Cage.

Kinoticket € 5,- | Blickle Kino im 21er Haus | Dauer: 2 Stunden