02.12 (Tuesday), 6 p.m., Cinema/Audytorium Hall Lecture on Gary Hill's work by Heinz Liesbrock. Meeting with Gary Hill
During the exhibition in the CCA, Ujazdowski Castle two recent Gary Hill works will be shown.
"MIDNIGHT CROSSING". 1997
"REMARKS ON COLOR". 1994
MIDNIGHT CROSSING, being the most recent, was commissioned specifically for the "Skulptur. Projekte in Munster" exhibition. This awesome work of nearly epic proportions forcefully highlights Hill's ability for achieving unusual levels of aesthetic profundity. The slightly earlier REMARKS ON COLOR touches upon one of the artist's conceptual preoccupations - reinterpretations of philosophical texts.
Gary Hill, one of the most distinguished American video artists, is also one of the few to create and develop his own language within the medium.
"AND SAT DOWN BESIDE HER". 1990
In Hill's works, both reflections upon philosophical and poetic texts are incorporated into the message, and simultaneous, intense sensual perceptions have been considered equally important.
"LEARNING COURVE" (Still Point). 1993
"HAND HEARD". 1996
Gary Hill was born in 1951 in Santa Barbara, California. He began to make video installations around 1974, when video was not yet fully recognized as an "official" art form. Since 1975, the artist started his pioneering experiments with electronic image processing devices.
"INASMUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE". 1990
Apart from numerous individual exhibitions, Gary Hill has participated in all major group shows, such as: Documenta, Metropolis, Doubletake, Whitney Biennal or Biennale Di Venezia (in 1995, he obtained the main award for his scuplture shown in Venice).
Gary Hill also received grants from Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japan/US Cultural Exchange Felowship. .
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