Barbara London - Curating Film Art
Guido van der Werve – Palpable Futility
MoMA curator Barbara London and artist Guido van der Werve will examine examples from MoMA’s collection and Van der Werve’s Nummer acht (2007) in search of associations and differences. The evening will end with a brief performance of Guido accompanying his mother on piano, a live version of a scene from his latest film Nummer achttien.
Barbara London, American curator for the MoMA, specialist in media and sound art as well as the author of Video/Art: The First Fifty Years (2020) founded the Museum of Modern Art‘s video collection with work by iconic artists such as Nam June Paik, Laurie Anderson and Andy Warhol. She is responsible for the purchase of over 500 media artworks for the MoMA, including Guido van der Werve’s Nummer acht.
Tonight she will put Guido van der Werve’s work in the context of international film and video art. Whilst talking to the artists they will watch examples from our collection and Van der Werve’s Nummer acht (2007).
The second part of the evening consists of a screening of The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974), Guido van der Werve’s choice of film. This dreamy work is Tarkovsky’s most personal, mixing childhood memories, news footage and poems by Tarkovsky’s father. Van der Werve selected this film because it entangles autobiography and fiction – a combination he has used for his latest work Nummer achttien.
Details
Production year
2022
Length
90 min.
Event language
English
Country
NL
Part of
Guido van der Werve
In the world of Guido van der Werve, Romanticism, nature and the sublime are never far away. His films explore the futility of existence, yet they also capture its endless beauty.
Barbara London & Guido van der Werve
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