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Guido van der Werve, Nummer acht, everything is going to be alright, 2007, courtesy the artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York

Guido van der Werve, Nummer acht

poster The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, SU 1974)

still from The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, SU 1974)

still The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, SU 1974)

Eye Filmmuseum seen across the river IJ © Marcus Koppen

Eye Filmmuseum, © Marcus Koppen

Guido van der Werve, Nummer vier, I don't want to get involved in this. I don’t want to be part of this. Talk me out of it, 2005, courtesy the artist and GRIMM Amsterdam | New York

campaign image Guido van der Werve – Palpable Futility

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In the dreamy, Mirror, Andrej Tarkovski’s most personal film, the Russian filmmaker forges childhood memories, news footage and poetry by his father Arseni into a true cinematic poem. Film selected by artist Guido van der Werve for his retrospective at Eye.

During a nervous breakdown, the lead relives his youth generating images of his beloved mother, grandmother (played by Tarkovski’s mother), his first love and his childhood home. The screening of The Mirror on 10 May follows a film lecture (19:15) by Barbara London, founder of the MoMA’s video collection. London will contextualise Guido van der Werve’s work in the context of international film and video art.

This first retrospective exhibition of Van der Werve features a broad selection of his films as well as new work.

Guido van der Werve

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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.

Barbara London - Curating Film Art

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show for: 632571 2022-05-10 21:15:00

Artist's films and lecture by curator Barbara London

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Andrei Tarkovski / SUHH, 1974 / 108 min.

In the dreamy, Mirror, Andrej Tarkovski’s most personal film, the Russian filmmaker forges childhood memories, news footage and poetry by his father Arseni into a true cinematic poem. Film selected by artist Guido van der Werve for his retrospective at Eye.

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