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| Still from the short film Ashes by Steve McQueen. Image via thomasdanegallery.com. |
Opening reception: Monday,
October 13, 2014, 6 – 9pm
3 & 11 Duke Street St James’s
London, UK
From Thomas Dane Gallery press release:
The directors of Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to present
two new works by British artist and filmmaker, Steve McQueen. The first,
entitled Ashes, 2014, is installed as
an immersive projection with sound. It
was shot on Super8 film with a haunting verbal soundtrack, recently recorded in
Grenada. Much of the footage dates from
2002 and was taken by the legendary cinematographer, Robbie Muller. The
deceptively simple film is an elegiac and complex portrait, a meditation on
youth, beauty and the passage of time. It was commissioned by Espace Louis
Vuitton, Tokyo and shown there earlier this year. The second, an object-based
work, will be shown in the gallery for the very first time.
Over the last twenty years McQueen has been the author of
some of the most seminal works of the moving image designed for gallery-based
presentation, as well as three films for cinematic release, Hunger (2008), Shame (2010) and 12 Years a
Slave (2013). In this new exhibition, the artist's signature is evident,
yet he further extends the range of his enquiry into the image and the object.
His work hovers between the specific and the universal, the literal and the
abstract, evading definition and multiplying experiential and interpretive
possibilities. Certain works stem from
McQueen's unflinching observation of the self - sometimes with ambiguous carnal
undertones. Others drawn from a potent, at times bleak, political
consciousness, which addresses specific historical moments. This new exhibition brings together these and
other formal and conceptual strands of McQueen's work.
SteveMcQueen was born in London in 1969. His work has been
collected by museums throughout the world, not least Tate Gallery, London;
MoMA, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and the Musee National
d'Art Moderne George Pompidou, Paris. He represented Britain at the Venice
Biennale in 2009. A recent and highly acclaimed survey of his work traveled
from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Schaulager, Basel. McQueen won the
Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for his feature Hunger, the
only British director to be granted the prize, and the FIPRESCI prize for Shame
at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. 12
Years a Slave was awarded three Oscars at the latest Academy Awards, including
Best Film. Having been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire
(OBE, 2002), McQueen was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honors for services to the Visual Arts. He lives in
Amsterdam and London.
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