Film CONCEPTUAL PARADISE

John Baldessari in his studio, Los Angeles, 6. Oktober 2004 © photography Stefan Römer, John Baldessari’s studio, L.A. 2004

Wed, 09/21/2016

8:15 PM

Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

A film by Stefan Römer

Filmmaker: Stefan Römer
100 min., Germany, 2006, English

In three years of filmic research, the artist and author Stefan Römer has interviewed numerous outstanding international artists with his film team.

The film essay »Conceptual Paradise: There Is a Place for Sophistication« traces out the debates that allowed the intellectual art movement of Conceptual art to emerge in the 1960s and led to the most relevant questions in art today.

Artists:
Vito Acconci, Art & Language (Michael Baldwin, Mel Ramsden), Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Hartmut Bitomsky, Mel Bochner, Gregg Bordowitz, Klaus vom Bruch, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Luis Camnitzer, Jan Dibbets, Mark Dion, Sam Durant, Valie EXPORT, Stano Filko, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Shilpa Gupta, Hans Haacke, Július Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Sonia Khurana, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Locher, Marcel Odenbach, Yoko Ono, John Miller, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats, Heimo Zobernig


Stefan Römer will be present for Q+A, joined in a post screening conversation by Matthew Witkovsky, Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator, Department of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago


In cooperation with EXPO CHGO 2016 as part of EXPO ART WEEK

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