20 May 2025
Portrait(s): Screening of 16mm Films by Tacita Dean
With Tacita Dean
Paris, France
Off site
Following the exhibition 'Giacometti/Morandi. Still Moments' presented this winter at the Institut Giacometti, two 16mm films made by artist Tacita Dean in Giorgio Morandi’s studio in Bologna will be exceptionally screened.
Filmed in close-up, they offer a contemplative journey among the objects and traces of the artist’s work.
The screening will also feature Buon Fresco, a macro-filmed exploration of Giotto’s frescoes in the Upper Basilica of Assisi, alongside Mario Merz and Portraits, which, through close-up shots of Mario Merz seated in his garden and David Hockney smoking in his studio, reflect on time, disappearance, and the origins of art.
Buon Fresco, 2014, 16mm colour film, silent, 33 minutes
Mario Merz, 2002, 16mm colour film, optical sound, 8½ minutes
Day for Night, 2009, 16mm colour film, silent, 10 minutes
Still Life, 2009, 16mm black and white film, silent, 5½ minutes, continuous loop
Portraits, 2016, 16mm colour film, optical sound, 16 minutes
Image: Day for Night, 2009, 16mm colour film, silent, 10 minutes, Film still
Courtesy the artist; Frith Street Gallery, London and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris/Los Angeles
Tacita Dean (born 1965 in Canterbury) is a British and European visual artist living and working in Berlin and Los Angeles. Her work – comprising films, drawings, installations, and photographs – offers a sensitive meditation on time, often conveyed through portraits of singular places and individuals: trees, archaeological stones, elderly people. In an age dominated by video and digital technologies, she maintains a distinctive relationship with 16mm and 35mm film as her chosen medium. In 2002, she inaugurated a series of artist portraits with Mario Merz.
Tuesday, 20 May at 6:30pm
Free (with reservation)
Cinémathèque Robert-Lynen
11 rue Jacques Bingen, 75017 Paris