"Adaptation" Exhibition
Miguel Abreu Gallery
This event has ended.
Adaptation, a two-part exhibition features a film by Portuguese director, Pedro Costa, and a new painting by Pieter Schoolwerth. The exhibition functions like a kind of diptych in which a single painting, a reworking of a 17th-century picture by Hendrik ter Brugghen, will hang in the front gallery while a documentary film, Danièle Huillet / Jean-Marie Straub: Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (Where Lies Your Hidden Smile?), will be screened continuously in the main gallery on the other side of a
bisecting wall.
The underlying intention is to present and confront, without comment, two intensely engaging, yet sharply different attitudes towards adapting pre-existing literary and art historical material. Pedro Costa’s film apprehends Straub and Huillet in the process of editing Sicilia!, their adaptation of Elio Vittorini’s novel Conversazione in Sicilia (Conversations in Sicily, 1937-1938), while Pieter Schoolwerth’s painting transforms Esau Selling His Birthright (1627) by a leading member of the Dutch Caravaggisti from Utrecht.
[Image: Pieter Schoolwerth "Portrait of “Esau Selling His Birthright“ with Candle (after Ter Brugghen)" (2009) Oil on canvas Framed dimensions: 64 ½ x 82 ½ in.]
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Schedule
from October 18, 2009 to November 15, 2009