Malcolm LE GRICE British, 1940-2024
The version of After Leonardo, exhibited here, includes a slide projection, a collage triptych, a video projection and the original torn piece of magazine featuring a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. The work attacks artistic authenticity and the instability of meaning across history.
“One interpretation of the juxtaposition of a real object (albeit a reproduction of a cultural icon) alongside its cinematic representation is that it highlights the reality of the cinematic in the context of an object we assume to be part of the real physical universe” (Malcolm Le Grice, 2001, in Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age, 277).
Exhibitions
1973. Filmaktion, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1974.Projekt '74, Cologne, Germany
1975. Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1976.Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
1977.Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1977.Film als Film, Cologne, Berlin and Essen, Germany
1979.Film as Film, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2000.Live in Your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2002. Shoot Shoot Shoot, Tate Modern, London (touring), UK
2007.Sobre la historia (On History), Fundación Santander, Madrid, Spain
2008.Kill Your Timid Notions KYTN, Dundee Art Centre, Dundee, UK
2011. Malcolm Le Grice: Le Temps des Images, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourgogne, France
2012.Filmaktion, Tate Modern, London, UK
2013.Man with a Projector in Performa13 Festival, Eyebeam, New York, USA
Literature
Le Grice, Malcolm, 'Mapping in Multi-space - Expanded Cinema to Virtuality', 1996, from Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age, p. 277.
Rees, A.L., White, Duncan, Ball, Steven, Curtis, David, eds., 2011. Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance, Film. London: Tate Publishing, 28, 76, 116, 164, 169.