Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café
Mark Lewis - Le Grand Café

Exhibition

All of Mark Lewis’s activity is an exploration of filmic language, through which he works as much with cinema’s past (its history, modes of representation and narration, technical and formal possibilities), as with the elements that constitute painting and photography. He works with the material of the image itself and questions the manner in which we understand it.

His short and silent films are veritable visual intrigues, but not narrative, frequently set in the heart of everyday life: the everyday life of modern cities. He presents the spectator with an exercise in decoding, a strange experience of “déjà-vu”, and at the same time he recomposes the disparate elements of his own idea of “permanent cinema”.

The exhibition will bring together a group of recent works and will reveal for the first time two previously unseen films by Mark Lewis.

Artworks

Mark Lewis
Rush Hour, Morning and Evening, Cheapside
2005
Super 35 mm film transferred, color, silent
3 min 42
MOMA's collection, New-York
Courtesy Serge Le Borgne gallery, Paris
Mark Lewis
Rear Projection: Molly Parker
2006
35 mm film transferred, color, silent
4 min
Courtesy Serge Le Borgne gallery, Paris
Mark Lewis
Nothumberland
2005
Super 16 mm film transferred, color, silent
4 min 37 s
Musée des Beaux-Arts's collection, Montréal
Courtesy Serge Le Borgne gallery, Paris
Mark Lewis
Cinema Museum
2008
Film Super 16 mm transferred, sound
36 min
Courtesy Serge Le Borgne gallery, Paris
Mark Lewis
The Fight
2008
HD video
5 min 31 s
Production Fine Arts Academy, Vienna
Courtesy Serge Le Borgne gallery, Paris
Mark Lewis
Isosceles
2007
Super 35 mm film transferred to DVD
3 min 10 s
Elisa Neuton's collection, Toronto
Courtesy galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris
Mark Lewis
Spadina, Reverse Dolly, Zoom, Nude
2006
35 mm film transferred to DVD
2 min 55 s
MUSEION's collection, Bolsano
Courtesy Serge Le Borgne gallery, Paris

Biography

Born in 1957 in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada).
Lives and works in London.

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