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[\/vc_raw_html][vc_empty_space height=”10px”][vc_column_text]\u00ab\u200b \u200bA film is just a school of perception, that\u2019s all. It\u2019s necessary to be aware and modest and know what you\u2019re dealing with. It\u2019s a means of helping people to see and to look, and to see better and feel better \u00bb<\/i><\/p>\n
(Jean-Marie Straub and Danie\u0300le Huillet, Incontri, Cineteca di Bologna, 2001)<\/p>\n
Casa Masaccio | Centro for l\u2019Arte Contemporanea is delighted to be the first Italian institution to host Jean-Marie Straub and Danie\u0300le Huillet: Films and Their Sites. Curated by Jean-Louis Raymond and Rita Selvaggio and aimed at a broader and uninitiated section of the public, one not familiar with the language of such uncompromising cinema, the exhibition presents a mix of documents and testimonies, stills and fragments, study materials, mappings and elective affinities that, in a compelling orchestration, focuses its gaze on the disquiet of the human condition.
\nThe cinema of Jean-Marie Straub (1933) and Danie\u0300le Huillet (1936-2006) has traversed the 20th century, its conflicts and its impossible utopias, raising questions that remain without answers, apart from that of an image and a line of formal research that stems from and has been developed in a rigorous way out of an examination of the structures and the unexpected aspects of reality in all its semantic and perceptual complexity. The profound materiality of this cinema of theirs, a cinema of the essential that sets the images in a concrete political habitat, is made up of sounds recorded live and of faces, but also of earth, water and rocks, of air and wind, of nature that is both material and mystery.<\/p>\n
Exhibiting Stills
\nWhat for much of the international film industry would simply fall into the category of documentation (an image extracted as a record, for information) becomes, in the case of Danie\u0300le Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, a new means of access to one of the essential aspects of their work: the frame.
\nThe Straubs\u2019 frame entails time. It is located in the duration of the images. Its precision, suited to capturing movement, opens up a space that allows the viewer\u2019s inclusion in a unique experience, renewed each time, in a place whose principal analogy is with the painted picture.
\nThese individual frames are conveyed totally by the stills and, in alluding directly to the films, reveal simultaneously their potent autonomy and their expressive force. It is their fundamentally plastic quality that has guided the initial conception of this exhibition.
\nThe Straubs\u2019 work is exemplary for its engagement in an art form nourished by the history of the arts. Cinema, painting and, at the centre, literature, music and the theatre are the sources of the whole of their work. Their determination and political will underlie each of their choices, in an incessant exploration of the mysteries of human societies, in search of an emancipated, poetic community. From faces to landscapes, from bodies to buildings, it is left to us to investigate an active memory of beings and the world.
\nThe exhibition testifies to this in full. It is intended for a public of enthusiasts or the uninitiated. Far from being inescapable for the discovery and appreciation of their work, it should be seen as an approach that fosters reflection and questioning; a time devoted to understanding how much each of these images is \u2018metonymically\u2019 impregnated with the film from which it has been extracted.
\nJean-Louis Raymond<\/p>\n
The exhibition Jean-Marie-Straub et Danie\u0300le Huillet. Films and Their Sites, was conceived and organized by Pascal Kern, Jean-Louis Raymond and Servane Zanotti, at the suggestion of Dominique Pai\u0308ni, in the framework of the programme of research at the E\u0301cole Supe\u0301rieure des Beaux-Arts in Le Mans (ESAD TALM).
\nIt was initially staged at the ESBAM in November 1999, contemporaneously with the release of Sicilia! in cinemas, and opened in the presence of Jean-Marie Straub and Danie\u0300le Huillet (1936-2006).
\nSubsequently it has been put on at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris (2000), the French Embassy in Rome and the Locarno Film Festival, the Me\u0301diathe\u0300que in Metz (2002), the contemporary art centre of Villa Arson, Nice (2004), the E\u0301cole d\u2019Art de Grenoble (2012) and in 2016 the Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York.<\/p>\n
Thanks to: Association Des films et leurs sites, Cine\u0301mathe\u0300que franc\u0327aise, Cine\u0301mathe\u0300que de Grenoble, Miguel Abreu and Katherine Pickard (Miguel Abreu Gallery), Dominique Pai\u0308ni, Jean-Marie Straub, Barbara Ulrich and Servane Zanotti.<\/p>\n
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