* Students with
radically different backgrounds should sit by side and learn and achieve with each other.
Instead, it requires diversity of thought by consciously bringing together people from
radically different backgrounds.
Not exact matches
Each comes from a
different mythological
background and each has
different strengths and skills and, therefore,
radically different ways of fighting.
Coming from
radically different childhoods and
backgrounds (Truffaut came from an unhappy working class home and stints in juvenile detention, Godard from an affluent, educated, supportive family), the directors were close friends and colleagues, sharing many of the same cinematic fathers (Rossellini, Bergman, Renoir), celebrating neglected directors of the past (Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock in a celebrated book, Godard interviewed Fritz Lang in a documentary and cast him in Contempt) and preaching the gospel of a cinema dedicated to presenting the real, the honest and the authentic, first in the pages of film magazines and then on the screen.
Brand New Gallery departs from these assumptions to present Beyond the Object, a group show appositely conceived to combine works by artists with disparate
backgrounds and from
different generations, inevitably forced to confront themselves with production, exploring the interaction between composition and form which
radically becomes an archetype endowed with its own language.