Monday 21 July 2014

Steve McQueen Exhibit

Drumroll, a three-channel video installation created by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen captures an up-close and personal feeling of Manhattan.

McQueen created this sensory experience by placing three video cameras inside of an oil drum and jumping in as it rolled down the streets of Manhattan.

Since he completed his first film in 1993, Steve McQueen (b. 1969, London) has produced a remarkable body of projected films, video installations, and, more recently, feature-length films. Trained as a painter, McQueen studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design (1989-90), Goldsmiths College, London (1990-93), and at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (1993-94). In 2009 he represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale and has received numerous other awards and grants for his work as an artist and filmmaker. McQueen’s first feature film Hunger (2008) was awarded the Caméra d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and in 2011 he received the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film at the Venice International Film Festival for Shame (2011). He has exhibited internationally with a major career retrospective organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Schaulager Basel in 2012-2013. In 2014, the film 12 Years a Slave, directed by McQueen, won the Academy Award for Best Picture
 This exhibition will be on display at MOCA's West Hollywood gallery in the Pacific Design Center through September 1st.

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