On the occasion of the 15th edition of ”Giornata del Contemporaneo”, an initiative aimed to the promotion of the complex and lively world of contemporary art, the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm presents Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait, a movie written and directed by Pappi Corsicato, who will be present at the screening.
The screening will be preceded by a conversation between director Pappi Corsicato and curator Adriana Rispoli.
Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait gives a look at the personal life and public career of New York artist Julian Schnabel. This portrait the result of about two years of filming, supported by an intense archival work. The movie mixes professional and private life together with the cinematographic passion of Schnabel that led him to shoot films like Basquiat in 1995, Before Night (2000, Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival) and Lo Scafandro e la Farfalla (2007, Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival, two Golden Globes and a nomination for Best Director at the Oscars). The living art of Julian Schnabel – presented at the Tribeca Film Festival – is also enriched by the testimonies of Al Pacino, Jeff Koons, Bono Vox, Laurie Anderson and Mary Boone .
Pappi Corsicato was born in Naples in 1960. He moved to New York in 1980, where he studied dance and choreography at Alvin Alley Dance School and acting at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and at the Actor’s Studio. Pappi returned to Italy in 1993 to write and direct his first film, the comedy entitled Libera (Berlin Film Festival). He wins the Ciak d’Oro and Grolla d’Oro awards for the best feature film and the Best Young Director award, conferred by the Italian Film Journalists Union. Other feature-length feature films include Buchi Neri (1995), I Vesuviani (1997), Il Seme della Discordia (2008) and Il Volto di un’Altra (2012). Since 1994 he has directed several video documentaries on contemporary art and artists, including Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Jannis Kounellis, Anish Kapoor and Gilbert & George, some of which have been screened in cultural centres such as the Tate Modern in London and the Center Pompidou in Paris. Pappi Corsicato is also in charge of directing and staging operas in Italy, such as Carmen in 2000 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and then La Voce Umana at the Ravello Festival on the Amalfi Coast (2006).
Julian Schnabel (New York, 1951) is an American painter, director and screenwriter. He is known for monumental scale, both in the physical aggression of his materials and the historical reach of his themes. Schnabel rose to stardom quickly in the early 1980s and he often used sails or industrial tarps for painting surfaces, sometimes employing paint-soaked tablecloths to make tremendously large strokes across his images. He came to the notice of the art world as if fully formed, happy to don the role of standard bearer for 1980s excess and the return of an expressionistic swagger to painting that invoked the world of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Franz Kline. Although Schnabel has dedicated his life to painting, his career has expanded into film, architecture, and interior design.
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Language: English, with Italian subtitles
Free entrance, reservations required subject to availability. If you want to make a reservation, please send an e-mail to:
iicstockholm@gmail.com