Everything Made Bronze

Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone

Screening & Talk

Event overview

A screening programme of four 16mm films by artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone which in different ways re-make or re-imagine something else - a museum, a lost film sequence or a movie that was never made.

One of the featured films is their 2013 FVU commission Everything Made Bronze. Scenes alternate between two contrasting but related locations: Carlo Scarpa’s famous Gipsoteca plaster-cast gallery in the Museo Canova in Possagno, northern Italy, and the Venice-based plaster workshops of Eugenio de Luigi, one of Scarpa’s most important collaborators. The film is shot using a static spring-wound camera, which follows the play of light in the Gipsoteca over a number of days as it produces an endlessly fluctuating environment for the appreciation of Canova’s plaster-casts and terracotta maquettes.

A Q&A with Graham Ellard and Koyo Yamashita follows the screening.

28 July 2018

Remake. Remodel. at Image Forum, Shibuya, Tokyo.

7pm.

700 yen (members 500 yen)

Visit the Image Forum website for more information.

Everything Made Bronze was commissioned by FVU. Supported by Arts Council England; The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; The Henry Moore Foundation; Goldsmiths, University of London; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. With the kind cooperation of the Fondazione Canova, Possagno and the de Luigi workshop, Venice. With thanks to the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.