Sarah Morris

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Sarah Morris (* 1967 in Sevenoaks ) is a British artist and filmmaker who became known for her large-scale, colorful raster images. She lives and works in New York and London.

Red Owl [clips] , 2010
Hornet (Origami) , 2010, Düsseldorf, K20 , Paul-Klee-Platz
Poster for the movie Robert Towne , (35 minutes, 2006)

Life

Morris attended Brown University in Providence (USA) from 1985 to 1989 , where she completed her studies with a Bachelor of Arts . From 1989 to 1990 she took part in the "Independent Study Program" of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York . From 1999 to 2000 she was a guest at the American Academy in Berlin as a "Philip Morris scholarship holder" and worked in a studio in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. The artist is also known as a painter of brightly colored pictures in often geometric grid forms and as a filmmaker of artistic documentary film biographies of metropolises . Until 2012 she was married to the British artist Liam Gillick . Her studio is in a former warehouse in Chelsea (Manhattan) , where numerous artists work. Sarah Morris has received a number of prizes, including the 2001 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting Award, exhibited in renowned galleries and museums, for example the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), and lives alternately in London and New York City.

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Painting art

Sarah Morris's painterly works are diverse. It began with glittering monochrome boards on which individual words could be seen strikingly, for example "Girls". In 2000, she designed the cover picture with model star Kate Moss for the British magazine Vogue . Her monumental paintings in bright colors and abstract structures are now known. Thematically, she deals primarily with American metropolises, whose urban biography she approaches in this way. Thorough research precedes this work; she visits the respective cities with a camera and video camera, speaks to the people and weaves her impressions and experiences into the pictures, geometrically reduced. She uses the computer to compose the theoretically well-thought-out grid of her pictures; the high-gloss pop colors from household lacquer are applied with the help of assistants. Sometimes the paintings are reminiscent of late depictions by Piet Mondrian . The titles refer to well-known buildings or places in the city. “Sarah Morris observations are aesthetic in an almost decadent way, they condense modern life into pure forms, which she monumentalizes with cool fascination. There is no irony here, instead blatant borrowings from advertising, fashion and design - the world in which the heirs of Pop Art move carefree today. "

Morris' current images deal with the theme of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics. On them can be seen superimposed and interwoven circles. The motif for this motif was the ring-shaped motorway labyrinth around the Chinese capital. In terms of color, she let herself be influenced by, among other things, her impressions caused by the ubiquitous air pollution.

Cinematography

Robert Towne , 2006, film still from the Sarah Morris film of the same name

Morris has been making films since 1998. They are cosmopolitan city biographies in which they capture the atmosphere of political, economic and everyday life in a special way. In some films she shows the entertainment world, for example in Los Angeles the contemporary Hollywood spectacle culture. She was granted access to government offices for her film project Capital . From the political center of the American capital Washington , for example, she filmed press conferences and government limousines from unusual perspectives or Bill Clinton drinking coffee with his cabinet. She sensitively integrates joggers and passers-by into the silhouette of the urban glass backdrop. The film does not tell a continuous story, the viewer only receives "visual satisfaction". The artist “flies over and past her subjects, as it were. She scans them like a scanner from near and far. Because the position of the invisible artist's eye can hardly be made out, the viewer is sent into an irritating placelessness. "

Your first performed in 2008 the seventh film in 1972 relates to the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with the attack on the Israeli team. You can see beautiful photos of the current Olympic site and the surrounding area, in which the police archive material of the events of that time is incorporated. She sees her project as preparation for the film that she is shooting for the Beijing Olympics. In both cases she wants to investigate the question of power and responsibility and the uncontrollability of the whole. The focus of her 1972 film is an interview with Georg Sieber , the chief psychologist of the security service at the time, about the tragedy of the hostage-taking in Munich and the relationship between predictions and planning and the possible errors. Sieber was commissioned to design theoretical hazard constellations. Of the more than 60 possible scenarios created, one actually happened, but Sieber was not taken seriously at the time and he resigned after the games. Morris says about her film: “For me, Behnisch's Olympic architecture and the appearance that Otl Aicher gave the games were and are absolutely fantastic. It was an attempt to create something optimistic, which was unfortunately shattered by reality. ”In the program“ Fazit ”from Deutschlandradio Kultur , Wilhelm Warning judged 1972 :“ No documentary film with the will to objectivity. It's a work of art. And yet the question remains how the truth is. For curator Matthias Mühling , who accompanies the film with a very concentrated and clever little book, this is one of the complex levels of this work of art. "

Exhibitions (selection)

Works in public collections

Works by Sarah Morris can be found in London's Tate Gallery of Modern Art , the Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas (USA), the Wolfsburg Art Museum , the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam , the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in the Gallery for contemporary art in Leipzig, in the Hamburger Bahnhof / Museum der Gegenwart in Berlin , in the Museum der Moderne Salzburg , in the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main , in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich, in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection in Düsseldorf.

Movies

  • 2012: Rio (Music: Liam Gillick , 90 min.)
  • 2011: Chicago (68 min.)
  • 2010: Points on a Line (Music: Liam Gillick , 36 min.)
  • 2009: Beijing (Music: Liam Gillick , 86 min.)
  • 2008: 1972 (38 min.)
  • 2002: Robert Towne (35 min.)
  • 2004: Los Angeles (26 min.)
  • 2002: Miami (28 min.)
  • 2001: Capital (Washington DC) (18 min.)
  • 1999: AM / PM (Las Vegas) (13 min.)
  • 1998: Midtown (New York) (9 min.)

Quote

“Art is a process of exploration, I make pictures and films because I want to find out something. For me, art means having a lot of conversations all the time and at the same time, film is one of the ways to do this. My works contain coordinates that show a certain position that I have assumed in relation to space and time. "

- Sarah Morris

literature

Books and catalogs

  • Sarah Morris. 1972 . Foreword: Matthias Mühling ; Text contribution: Georg Sieber . Walther König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86560-460-6
  • Sophie Rabinowitz (Ed.): Sarah Morris. Los Angeles . Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-00-016363-8
  • Renate Wiehager (Ed.): Andy Warhol. Commissioned by Robert Longo, Simone Westerwinter, Mathis Neidhart . Co-author: Sarah Morris. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-1263-1
  • Sarah Morris. Capital . With an essay by Ronald Jones. Oktagon, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-89611-098-5
  • Sarah Morris. 7/6 - 13/8/2000. Kunsthalle Zurich . Zurich 2000

Secondary literature

Web links

Commons : Sarah Morris  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eve Claxton: The Interview: Sarah Morris In: NET-A-PORTER-MAGAZINE , pp. 24–26, accessed on October 22, 2014
  2. ↑ Sebastian Preuss: The grid of luxury and fashions . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 5, 2001
  3. ^ Aram Lintzel: Sarah Morris. Power and its dazzling facades . In: FAZ , June 27, 2001
  4. ^ FAZ , April 25, 2008
  5. ↑ Broadcast on April 26, 2008
  6. ^ Sarah Morris: Odysseus Factor. In: Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. Retrieved June 26, 2018 (English).
  7. ^ Kunsthalle Wien: Sarah Morris. Falls Never Breaks. In: Kunsthalle Wien. Retrieved June 26, 2018 .
  8. ^ Museum page on the exhibition ( Memento from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 24, 2014.
  9. ↑ Rio , pardolive.ch, 2012
  10. ↑ In conversation with Brita Sachs. In: FAZ , April 25, 2008, p. 50
personal data
SURNAME Morris, Sarah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH London