Mark Lewis (artist)
Mark Lewis | |
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Born | 1958 (age 65–66) Installation artist |
Spouse | Janice Kerbel |
Mark Lewis (born 1958) is a Canadian artist, best known for his film installations. He represented Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale.[1]
Biography
Lewis attended the Harrow College of Art (London) and the Polytechnic of Central London. In the 1980s, he studied with Victor Burgin, and was a friend of Laura Mulvey in 1981.[2] He began his career as a photographer and from 1989 to 1997 lived in Vancouver, becoming part of the burgeoning photoconceptualism scene of the Vancouver School. In 1991, he produced the documentary Disgraced Monuments with Mulvey.[3] In the mid‑1990s, he began making film-based installations . His first art film was Two Impossible Films (1995).[2] In 1999, he eliminated sound from his film.[2] His work focuses on the technology of film and the different genres which have developed in over 100 years of film history: he makes films that are often short, precise exercises on particular techniques, particularly rear projection (he believes the invention of rear projection in late 1920s was when film became modern)[2] and playing film backwards. In 2020, he told an interviewer:
The only real technical invention of the cinema is the ability to go backward.[4]
In 2009, he represented Canada at the
His work is in many collections including the
He lives and works in London, England which he moved to in 1997.[4] He is Professor in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and co-founder, co-director and co-editor of Afterall, a research and publishing project.[9][4]
References
- ^ Artist Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Visual Art Archived 2010-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d Nancy Tousley, "So Much to See: The Films of Mark Lewis", Canadian Art (Summer 2009): 49-53
- ^ "Disgraced Monuments (1991–1993)". wexarts.org. wex arts. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
- ^ a b c d e "Mark Lewis". www.youtube.com. OCAD, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
- ^ a b "Mark Lewis. Canada". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
- ^ "Program". www.cinematheque.qc.ca. La cinematheque quebec. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- ^ Lewis, Mark. "Mark Lewis". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
- ^ "Governor General`s Awards in Visual and Media Arts Archives". en.ggarts.ca. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 2021-10-06.
- ^ a b "Mark Lewis". www.fogoislandarts.ca. Fogo Island Arts. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
Further reading
- Lewis, Mark and Johanne Lamoureux. Mark Lewis: Public Art, Photographs and Projects. Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1994. ISBN 0-88865-300-X
- Rush, Michael, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Laura Mulvey and Karen Allen. Mark Lewis. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-84631-037-7
- Tousley, Nancy. "So Much to See: The Films of Mark Lewis." Canadian Art (Summer 2009): 48-61.
- 'Mark Lewis in Conversation with Laura Mulvey', in Fabrizi, Elisabetta (ed), 'The BFI Gallery Book', BFI, London 2011, pp.30-39.
External links
- Official website
- Mark Lewis at IMDb