Broadway Express, Isamu Noguchi, Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades

Free admission

at 21:30

Broadway Express

1959

(19 min.)

Filmed in 1959, Michael Blackwood's first film, Broadway Express, is a portrait of New York City's diverse population, captured in the city's subways during the evening rush hour, until to late at night. The film is a portrait of the city through the faces of passengers held captive during the journey.

at 21:50

Isamu Noguchi

1972

(30 min.)

An intimate portrait of artist Isamu Noguchi and an account of his lifelong passion for sculpture, Japanese gardens, theater and furniture making. Part of the film is shot to Spoleto with lifelong friend Buckminster Fuller. The sculpture Octetra made from Noguchi at Festival dei Due Mondi in 1968 can be seen today in the courtyard of Palazzo Collicola. His career spanned six decades, from the 1920s to the 1980s. The film shows Noguchi at the height of his artistic achievement; Noguchi is portrayed at work on new projects and accompanies the camera on visits to important is shown at work on new projects, while visiting important finished works and explaining his progress from the days of his apprenticeship with Brancusi. While explaining how to Michelangelo was told to collect his marble from Nago's Monte Altissimo, Noguchi addresses the importance of recognizing the relationship between nature, art and technology.

at 22:20

Sol LeWitt: 4 Decades

2001

(58 min.)

to Sol LeWitt never liked the idea of being filmed or photographed. He always felt he was best represented exclusively by his work. After two decades of exhortations for him to make an exception, LeWitt finally agreed, on the occasion of a major retrospective exhibition. Blackwood kept it simple: an overview of the exhibition with the artist and curator Gary Garrels, discussing the work on display. The film was recorded at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, an intermediate stop on the exhibition also presented at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Whitney Museum in New York. Garrels, who spent three years creating this exhibition in close collaboration with LeWitt, guides the artist through the seminal works he created over four decades, from the 1960s to 2000. The extraordinary wall drawings, for which LeWitt is particularly praised, are the centerpiece of the exhibition.

Italian subtitles