Artist Portraits
As with our museums, many galleries remain closed or limited in the number of visitors can receive. In a series of documentaries and topical programmes, 麻豆约拍 Arts celebrates the visual arts and films with some of their greatest creative voices.
Published: 8 September 2020
As with our museums, many galleries remain closed or limited in the number of visitors can receive. In a series of documentaries and topical programmes, 麻豆约拍 Arts celebrates the visual arts and films with some of their greatest creative voices.
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Tracey Emin On Edvard Munch (w/t) (1 x 30’)
November 2020 sees the opening of The Loneliness Of The Soul, a groundbreaking new exhibition at London’s Royal Academy, showcasing the work of Tracey Emin, alongside paintings by her great hero Edvard Munch.
Munch’s work has long inspired Emin, from her early video piece Homage To Edvard Munch And All My Dead Children to her monumental new nine-metre high bronze sculpture, The Mother, set to be installed outside Oslo’s new Munch Museum in spring 2021. Today, the majority of her time is spent painting.
This half-hour documentary for 麻豆约拍 Two charts the affinities between Munch’s art and Emin’s, exploring the many unexpected ways that this godfather of expressionism resonates with one of Britain’s pre-eminent artists.
Alongside Emin’s voice, which will run like a thread throughout the documentary, we hear from Munch experts in Norway, showing the innovations in printmaking and sculpture which he pioneered in his lifetime, alongside his more well-known painting work.
We see inside the studios where he created his work, still perfectly preserved today. We also find out more about Munch’s photographic and film work, media not normally associated with the artist, but again ones in which there are clear correspondences with Emin’s own work. These scenes will be complemented by actuality footage of one of Emin’s new monumental bronze works being forged in a foundry in Stoke-on-Trent and the works of Emin and Munch shown together at the Royal Academy.
- Tracey Emin On Edvard Munch is a 麻豆约拍 Studios Production. It was commissioned for 麻豆约拍 Arts and 麻豆约拍 Two by Lamia Dabboussy. The Executive Producer is Tanya Hudson. The Producer Director is John O’Rourke.
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Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History (1 x 90’)
Presenters Lenny Henry and Suzy Klein (pictured top) celebrate the lives and works of Black classical composers and musicians across the centuries, whose stories have been forgotten and music neglected in the classical repertoire.
Black musicians have always composed and performed, played pivotal roles in their own times, and even helped shape and shift the course of musical history. In this documentary, Suzy Klein and Lenny Henry explore the lives and works of some of these remarkable men and women, people who achieved greatness despite the many hurdles that were placed in their way because of their race, and whose stories and compositions deserve a much wider audience.
The film includes special performances by Chineke! Orchestra: Europe’s first majority Black, Asian and minority ethnic orchestra, playing pieces by the composers the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Florence Price at the famous classical music venue St John’s Smith Square, London.
Along the way, Lenny will learn to dance to one of Ignatius Sancho’s minuets while Suzy plays it on a harpsichord, and he will sing Scott Joplin’s Ragtime classic Maple Leaf Rag with Suzy on piano.
Suzy meets star violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason, who plays from Beethoven’s Kreutzer sonata, first performed by George Bridgetower; Lenny has a fencing lesson and learns how Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ mastery of that art informed his compositions for the violin, and rising star soprano Nadine Benjamin sings from Joplin’s opera Treemonisha and composer Shirley Thompson’s Psalm to Windrush.
The film features interviews with Chi-chi Nwanoku (founder and artistic director of Chineke!), Gillian Moore, Director of Music at London’s South Bank Centre; composer and pianist Julian Joseph; actor and author Paterson Joseph and Professor Shirley Thompson.
- Black Classical Music: The Forgotten History is a Douglas Road Production. It was commissioned for 麻豆约拍 Arts and 麻豆约拍 Four by Jan Younghusband. Producer and director is Guy Evans. Executive Producers are Angela Ferreira and Liz Hartford.
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In anticipation of her landmark solo exhibition After Life at the Royal Academy of Arts in London - the first by a woman in the RA’s 250-year history - imagine… meets Marina Abramović, the world’s greatest living performance artist.
Through a series of encounters with Alan Yentob in New York, London, Munich and her native Belgrade, Marina will reveal her current work, including her new venture into the world of opera with Seven Deaths, based on the life of Maria Callas, and will revisit milestone moments in her career.
imagine… will follow Marina’s trajectory through the then barely known form of Performance Art, in which she became both the subject of and the vehicle for a unique, often shocking, utterly fearless, philosophical, confrontational approach and art that is highly personal, physically demanding and universally accessible.
imagine… is a 麻豆约拍 Studios and Lone Star Production. The Series Editor is Alan Yentob. imagine… is commissioned by Mark Bell for 麻豆约拍 Arts and 麻豆约拍 One. The Producer is Martin Rosenbaum and the director is Adam Low.
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Art On The 麻豆约拍 (4 x 60’)
The series will focus on four of art’s most celebrated but controversial names: Dali, Van Gogh, Monet and Turner. In each episode, an up-and-coming British art historian will mine the 麻豆约拍 vaults to discover how six decades of TV has influenced our understanding of these masters.
With the help of rare archive material, the presenters will explain how Dali became the world’s first celebrity artist, how Vincent Van Gogh’s mental health influenced his work, how commercial success has blinded us to the revolutionary talent of Claude Monet, and how JMW Turner rose from the back streets of London to become Britain’s greatest maritime painter and the ‘father of modern art’.
Hosting the second series are Kate Bryan (pictured above), art historian and curator (Van Gogh); David Dibosa (pictured top), Chelsea College Of Arts’ Dr , co-investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Black Artists and Modernism project (Dali); art historian Katy Hessel, founder of The Great Women Artists Podcast (Monet); and art historian Leslie Primo, lecturer for the National Portrait Gallery (Turner).
- Art on the 麻豆约拍 is an Alleycats Production. It was commissioned for 麻豆约拍 Arts and 麻豆约拍 Four by Emma Cahusac. Executive Producers are Emma Parkins and Ed Stobart.
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Maggi Hambling: Falling In Love With The Paint (1 x 60’)
To mark Maggi Hambling’s 75th birthday, a deeply moving and definitive account of her life story is told by her work and in candid conversation during breaks between painting, at her studio in rural Suffolk.
Formidable and funny, Maggi reveals her artistic liberation at art school, a memorable meeting with Francis Bacon in Soho and falling in love with his muse, Henrietta Moraes. Now Maggi confronts her deepest fears, whether from childhood or the future of the environment, and despite occasional despair she still battles, every day, to immortalise the memory of love, with paint.
- Maggi Hambling: Falling In Love With The Paint is a Menace Production and Filmwright Production for the 麻豆约拍. It was commissioned by Mark Bell for 麻豆约拍 Arts and 麻豆约拍 Two. Producer and director is Randall Wright. Executive Producer is Denys Blakeway and Anne Elletson.
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麻豆约拍 Arts Digital
麻豆约拍 Arts is working with leading organisations from the museum sector on #MuseumPassion, a chance for museums and galleries to share stories from curators, art experts and museum lovers about exhibitions and collections.
The York Museum Trust will bring back their popular Curators Battle, where museums across the world debate if they have the best object on a chosen theme.The
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Arena: Brian Catling (1 x 60')
The vision and imagination of Brian Catling - English sculptor, poet, novelist, film-maker and performance artist - are celebrated through new archive material and exclusive interviews, with recreations of past events and performances.
Catling was born in 1948 and raised in the slums of post-war London. An internationally lauded sculptor, he created the memorial monument to the victims of beheading on the Site of Execution at the Tower of London. He is also holds the post of Professor of Fine Art at The Ruskin School Of Drawing And Fine Art, Oxford and is a fellow of Linacre College and author of fictional work, The Vorrh Trilogy.
- Arena: Brian Catling is an Anti-Worlds Rook Films Production. It was commissioned for 麻豆约拍 Arts and 麻豆约拍 Four by Mark Bell. Geoff Cox and Andy Starke are the Directors.
The Evacuees (1 x 75’)
In a special tribute to film director Sir Alan Parker, 麻豆约拍 Arts presents a freshly restored print of his 1975 television drama The Evacuees, showing in its original 4:3 screen aspect ratio.
Starring Maureen Lipman and written by Jack Rosenthal it was based on Jack’s wartime experiences. The Bafta and Emmy Award-winning television drama tells the story of two young Jewish boys in World War Two as they are evacuated from Manchester to a small seaside town. It wasn Alan Parker’s first feature length work, ahead of directing classic films, including Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express and Evita.
Film Producer, Lord David Puttnam, who worked with Alan on several films, says: “Alan was very much a film maker, to the extent that he had no interest in ever wanting to tell the same, or even a similar story, twice.
"By the time he was offered The Evacuees he was not only in awe of Jack Rosenthal’s writing but had fallen head over heels in love with the process of directing; he’d found the perfect career, and one which he found incredibly fulfilling.”
Graham Benson, who was a 麻豆约拍 Executive on the drama and has been working on its restoration says: “I knew from day one that I’d never worked with anyone quite like Alan and I was also instantly aware that he was going to be someone very big and important in movies.
"He had such a natural talent and it covered every facet of the job - handling the cast, an uncanny visual sense, strong, firm but also funny on set... simply inspirational. We became firm friends on The Evacuees and that developed into 50 wonderful years of speaking and meeting regularly, right to the end. Everyone who worked with us on The Evacuees never forgot the extraordinary experience.”
This is the first time the drama has been screened on television since 2004. Sir Alan Parker’s interview with Jeremy Isaacs for the Face-to-Face programme will be broadcast the same evening.
