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Unrevealing art – artist revealed

In the trailer to The Limits of Control, there's a shot of Isaach de Bankolé sitting in an art gallery, in front of a painting of a white veil covering the white canvas (the veil might be an actual sheet, whether it's painted or not is next to impossible to tell; it's slightly reminiscent of the 17th century painter Domenico Fetti's early trompe-l'œil "Veil of Veronica", or rather like a minimalist, conceptual – secular? – version of it.)

Thanks to a friendly contact in Spain, who's also a Jim Jarmusch scholar, I've found out that the painting in question is called "Gran sábana" (roughly Grand Sheet, or Great Veil), and was made in 1968 by the Catalan artist Antoni Tàpies. The gallery holding the painting (and many others by Tàpies) is the Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina, Sofìa in Madrid, Spain, where, of course, some of the film was shot.

More on Tàpies (in Spanish):
http://www.artelista.com/biografia/9055383618353783-Antoni-Tapies.html

     

Comments (1)

Mar 11, 2009
Gabri said...
And the Oscar goes to... Jarmusch´s In the Limits of Control. (I´m sure)

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