Philip Haas
Philip Haas | |
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Born | 1954 |
Nationality | American |
Known for | art and filmmaking |
Notable work | Winter (after Arcimboldo) Angels and Insects |
Philip Haas (born 1954) is an American artist, screenwriter and filmmaker, perhaps best known for his 2012 sculpture exhibition "The Four Seasons" and his 1995 film Angels and Insects.
He began his career as a documentary film maker, directing ten profiles of unusual artists through the early 1990s with the theme "Magicians of the Earth," commissioned by the Centre Georges Pompidou.[1]
His feature films include Angels and Insects, set in Victorian England, which was nominated for an Academy Award and the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or, Up at the Villa, an adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novella, starring Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft and Kristin Scott Thomas, The Situation, a political thriller set in Iraq, released in 2006, and the highly regarded The Music of Chance (1993).
In 2008, the Sonnabend Gallery of New York featured a film installation called The Butcher's Shop, commissioned by the Kimbell Art Museum, in which Haas recreated the space depicted in
Retrospectives of his art films have been held at the Tate Gallery in London, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Lincoln Center in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for this body of work. He has taught in the Visual Arts Program at Princeton University. In 2008 and 2010, he had one-man shows of paintings and film installations at the Sonnabend Gallery.
In 2023, the Museum Flehite held a monumental retrospective of Haas’s work titled “Sculpture Breathes Life”.[7]
References
- ^ Spliced Wire "The House that Haas Built" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ OneArtWorld.com, "The Butcher's Shop" Archived 2012-07-20 at archive.today
- ^ ArtSlant, Exhibition Detail
- ^ top ten museum shows of 2009.
- ^ "paintings and film installations at the Sonnabend Gallery". Retrieved Nov 27, 2019.
- ^ "Page Not Found | Dulwich Picture Gallery". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
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: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ "Sculpture breathes life | Museum Flehite Amersfoort". Sculpture breathes life | Museum Flehite Amersfoort. Retrieved 2023-07-24.