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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune”: An Exhibition of a Film of a Book That Never Was 2 April – 16 May Steven Claydon, Matthew Day Jackson and Vidya Gastaldon with material by Moebius, H R Giger and Chris Foss Curated by Tom Morton An Exhibition of a Film of a Book That Never Was takes as its departure from the cult Chilean film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempted 1976 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune. This exhibition includes production drawings made by Moebius, H R Giger and Chris Foss alongside commissioned work made in response by three international contemporary artists: Steven Claydon, Matthew Day Jackson and Vidya Gastaldon. Following the release of his mystical Western El Topo (1970) and Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky embarked on his Dune project, gathering around him a group of collaborators that included the French comics artist Moebius, the Swiss artist These reveal a potential future for science fiction movie-making that eschewed the conservative technology-based approach of American film-makers in favour of something closer to a metaphysical fever-dream. This was, though, a future that would never take place. In 1977, George Lucas’ Star Wars was released and the history of science fiction film-making, and even mainstream cinema, would never be the same again... Dune’s themes of jihad, resource war and environmental degradation are especially pertinent to our current political moment, and the exhibition also seeks to explore the notion of adaptation and counterfactual histories of film. The exhibition brings together the original production drawings for Dune and Moebius’ storyboards for Jodorowsky’s script alongside new works by Steve Claydon, Matthew Day Jackson and Vidya Gastaldon developed in reaction to Jodorowsky’s notes on Dune - an extraordinary mixture of mystical pronouncement, philosophical speculation on the nature of authorship, cultural criticism and 70s film gossip. Press enquiries: contact Hannah Prothero, Marketing & Communications Manager, Plymouth Arts Centre, phone: 01752 276990, email: hannah@plymouthartscentre.org |
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Image:Vidya Gastaldon, I must not fear, fear is the mindkiller... 2009. Courtesy Art:Concept, Paris. |
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Image: Matthew Day Jackson, to infinity...2009. Courtesy the artist and Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam. |
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