영화 '굿 윌 헌팅' 감독 거스 밴 샌트가 9월 12일부터 11월 1일까지 다운타운 비토 슈나벨 프로젝츠에서 '할리우드 불러바드'를 타이틀로 한 풍경화전을 연다. 비토 슈나벨은 화가이자 영화감독 줄리안 슈나벨의 아들이다.

GUS VAN SANT: RECENT PAINTINGS, HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD

September 12 - November 1, 2019
Vito Schnabel Projects, NYC

Opening Reception: September 11, 6-8PM


Gus Van Sant, Untitled (Hollywood 4), 2018 - 2019, Watercolor on linen, 84 x 66 inches (213.4 x 167.6 cm)

Beginning September 12, 2019, Vito Schnabel Projects will present Gus Van Sant: Recent Paintings, Hollywood Boulevard, an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles-based artist and auteur Gus Van Sant (b. 1952, Louisville, Kentucky). On view will be a series of large-scale watercolors on stretched linen that collapse dreamlike impressions of urban Los Angeles with speci c narratives inspired by the people and events Van Sant has observed since establishing his home in the city in the 1970s.

Recent Paintings: Hollywood Boulevard is Van Sant's first solo paintings exhibition in New York.

Admired internationally as a filmmaker, painter, photographer, and musician, Van Sant received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1975. Since that time his studio painting practice has moved in and out of the foreground of a multi-disciplinary career, becoming a priority again over the past decade. Van Sant’s work in different mediums is united by a single overarching interest in portraying people on the fringes of society. In this exhibition, dreamlike hybridized scenes depict male nudes in shimmering, fractured cityscapes—obscure objects of desire whose presence suggests a mythological dimension hovering within the everyday world.

Many of the paintings on view in the exhibition feature a solitary young man striding past, standing before, or slumping beside a driverless automobile. Roads, buildings, vehicles, and body parts dissolve into one another, yielding a persistent sense of displacement that is heightened by Van Sant’s palette of pale pastels punctuated by deftly placed lines and spots of vivid color. Defined brushstrokes and carefully rendered details give way to veils and washes on linen, resulting in a deceptively gentle mien that seduces and then confounds. The erotic and unsettling effects of these scenes recall the words of Van Sant’s multi-disciplinary predecessor, the filmmaker, painter, poet, novelist, designer, and playwright Jean Cocteau: “I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.”

Van Sant’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, Le Case d’Arte in Milan, Italy, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, among others. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions since the 1980s, presenting drawings, paintings, photographs, video works, and writing. Among Van Sant’s many internationally acclaimed feature films are Milk (2008); Elephant (2003); Good Will Hunting (1997); My Own Private Idaho (1991); and Drugstore Cowboy (1989).

Gus Van Sant: Recent Paintings, Hollywood Boulevard continues the gallery's engagement with multidisciplinary artists— including Van Sant, Laurie Anderson, and Tom Sachs, among others—at its spaces in New York and St. Moritz, Switzerland.

The exhibition will be on view at Vito Schnabel Projects, 43 Clarkson Street in New York City, Monday - Friday, 11am - 6pm, from September 12 through November 1, 2019.