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22.01.17 – 17.04.17

Cinéma mon amour Film in Art

A joint project of the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Solothurn Film Festival

The subject of the group exhibition Cinéma mon amour. Film in Art is the fascination of cinema. Internationally known artists show works that address various aspects of film in art. At the same time, the 52nd Solothurn Film Festival devotes its Focus special programme to the representation of art in film.

Film an art have always been inseparably linked. The works in the exhibition Cinéma mon amour show how cinema, film and the film industry are reflected in contemporary art. Artists such as Candice Breitz and Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler examine the backgrounds and mechanisms of film production; others take up the language of particular genres and specific films or, like Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, take a critical look at the film theatre as a space of perception. Even "by-products"  of the film industry, such as screen credits or film posters, find their way into artworks. Finally, Hollywood and the star cult are the starting point for the works of Douglas Gordon and Sam Taylor-Johnson. Several of these aspects inform Stan Douglas' most recent video installation titled The Secret Agent (2015), in which truly great cinema unfolds on six screens. With countless references from film noir and Hitchcock's thriller aesthetic to send-ups of detective films, the Canadian artist stages a spectacular readaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1907 spy novel The Secret Agent. 

Artists included:

Martin Arnold (*1959, A), John Baldessari (*1931, USA), Fiona Banner (*1966, GB), Marc Bauer (*1975, CH), Pierre Bismuth (*1963, F), Candice Breitz (*1972, ZA), Janet Cardiff (*1957, CAN) & George Bures Miller (*1960, CAN), collectif_fact (Annelore Schneider, *1979, CH & Claude Piguet, *1977, CH), Tacita Dean (*1965, GB), Stan Douglas (*1960, CAN), Thomas Galler (*1970, CH), Christoph Girardet (*1966, D) & Matthias Müller (*1961, D), Douglas Gordon (*1966, GB), Teresa Hubbard (*1965, IRL) / Alexander Birchler (*1962, CH), Samson Kambalu (*1975, MW), Daniela Keiser (*1963, CH), Urs Lüthi (*1947, CH), Philippe Parreno (*1964, F), Julian Rosefeldt (*1965, D), Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948, JAP), Sam Taylor-Johnson (*1967, GB), Mark Wallinger (*1959, GB)

Tandem Ticket
With your ticket to the Focus programme you receive a discount on admission to the exhibition Cinéma mon amour. Visitors received respective coupons.

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A richly illustrated publication (G/E) is published in conjunction with the exhibition. Also available are posters of the exhibition in sizes F4 and A2. 

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