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Canyon - Katharina Grosse
by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
France, 2023, 16’20’’
Presented at the 16th edition of Lo schermo dell’arte, 2023
Screenplay: Heinz Peter Schwerfel
Photography: Marcel Neumann
Photography: Marcel Neumann
Editing: Jean Vercken
Producer: Vincent Decir
vo: French, German; st: Italian
Producer: Vincent Decir
vo: French, German; st: Italian
Katharina Grosse (Freiburg, Germany 1961) is known for her site-specific installations, which create immersive environments through the use of brightly colored acrylic paints. Among these Canyon, inaugurated in 2022 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, is an imposing suspended installation that combines painting and sculpture, a painting object capable of turning painting into a spatial experience.
In this short documentary the artist talks about the motivations behind her work while the video camera follows the conception and creation of the work. After Olafur Eliasson, Ellsworth Kelly and Adrián Villar Rojas, Grosse is the fourth artist to engage with the architectural spaces Frank Gehry designed for the foundation’s Paris HQ.
Heinz Peter Schwerfel (1954, lives between Paris and Cologne).
Filmmaker, art critic and curator. He curated the Greek pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. He is founder and artistic director of the artist film festival Kino der Kunst in Munich. As a filmmaker, he has filmed about 60 portraits of artists including Georg Baselitz, Daniel Buren, Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Alex Katz, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, etc., as well as series for ARTE on “Design” (1998-2002) and “Live Art” (2014-2017), the latter with Marina Abramovic, Simon Denny, Cao Fei, Gilbert & George, Joan Jonas, Tino Sehgal and many others.
Filmmaker, art critic and curator. He curated the Greek pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. He is founder and artistic director of the artist film festival Kino der Kunst in Munich. As a filmmaker, he has filmed about 60 portraits of artists including Georg Baselitz, Daniel Buren, Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Alex Katz, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, etc., as well as series for ARTE on “Design” (1998-2002) and “Live Art” (2014-2017), the latter with Marina Abramovic, Simon Denny, Cao Fei, Gilbert & George, Joan Jonas, Tino Sehgal and many others.
Selected Filmography
2016 Live Art: Adrian Villar Rojas in Istanbul; 2015 Live Art: Philippe Parreno, le temps de l’espace; 2014-2017 Live art TV series; 2014 The Utopian City of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; 2012 Daniel Buren at the Grand Palais; 2011 The World According to Kapoor.
2016 Live Art: Adrian Villar Rojas in Istanbul; 2015 Live Art: Philippe Parreno, le temps de l’espace; 2014-2017 Live art TV series; 2014 The Utopian City of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; 2012 Daniel Buren at the Grand Palais; 2011 The World According to Kapoor.