 Forest, 2005 video still, C-print on cintra, 20 x 24" Forest Brock Enright, Ivan Hürzeler, Erik L. Barnes, Sonia Bedikian, Theodore Bouloukos, James Case, Grant Cornett, Richard Dacey, Catherine Delavigne, Maggie Dickinson, Angelique Everett, Mark Gibson, Brandon Hoy, Matt Jones, Daniel Joseph, Chris Kent, Maurina Lioce, Jody Lee Lipes, Bryant MacMillan, Philip Manley, Albert Minerolyn Morrison, Dee Nowitzky, Josh Nowitzky, Jessica O'Grady Marsh, Marko Orso, Paulo Padilha, Chris Parachini, Dominque Porter, Thommy Prin, Mark Sarosi, Tim Soete, Ross Steeves & Jennifer Zakrzewski Cynthia Broan Gallery is delighted to announce "Forest", a collaborative project by Brock Enright and Ivan Hürzeler based on a documented five-day group encounter they created in August 2005. All of the "Forest" participants will be invited to reunite for the installation of the exhibition, which will include sculpture, video and photographs, in tandem with the premiere of "Forest", an hour-long movie by Ivan Hürzeler. With the seamless contributions of the participants, both the exhibition and the movie blur the distinction between fiction and reality. Only the participants will know what actually happened in the forest, but they do have stories to tell. Brock and Ivan allow the secrets and lies to unfold through compiled detritus and documentation, and in thepoignant cinematic narrative of the film. In "Forest", we follow a young woman who rises from underwater and crosses a great distance to find other people like her, dressed in athletic uniform and camping in a great forest. Each day is progressively more chaotic, until a crisis occurs and the athletes must leave. Ivan and Brock spent months arriving at a concept largely derived from Brock's lexicon of psychological interventionism. Many of Brock's veteran players were up for the experience, and Ivan's shooting script helped establish the environment and the situations that would eventually comprise a tiny, self contained world in moving pictures. "Forest" is Ivan Hürzeler's second movie to premier at the gallery, and his most ambitious project to date. His movies screened at international film festivals in France and Germany in 2004. He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1995. He lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. Brock Enright, a New York artist, received his MFA at Columbia University in 2001. He has exhibited widely in museums, galleries, theaters and on the internet. His work was recently included in "Expander" at London's Royal Academy, and "Greater New York" at PS1. He had his first solo exhibition, "Raising Dead Mothers", at Vilma Gold, London in 2005, and his adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's 1781 play "The Robbers" is currently playing at the German National Theater in Weimar, Germany. Film credits: Dedication to Sonia Bedikian, who made the production of this movie possible and died in January 2006. Cynthia Broan Gallery presents "Forest"; Produced by Anders Hedberg; Executive Producers: Cynthia Broan & Sonia Bedikian; Directed by Ivan Hürzeler in collaboration with Brock Enright; Score by Philip Manley; Story by Catherine Delavigne; Director of Photography: Grant Cornett; Additional Camera: Jody Lee Lipes; Edited by Erik Barnes. Exhibition: February 23 - April 1, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10 am - 6 pm Cynthia Broan Gallery 546 W. 29th St. USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 760 0809 Fax +1 212 760 0810 Email contact@cynthiabroan.com www.cynthiabroan.com |
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