A four artist collaboration, featuring three painters and one poet ~ Including paintings by Tania Rivilis @tania_rivilis & Preslav Kostov @preslavkostov & Francien Krieg @francapaintings ~ GAN animation, music, poetry and performance by Laurence Fuller @laurencefuller.
On April 17th 2022, I had the incredible opportunity to portray one of the finest painters alive today, David Hockney, for a major network. I talked to a few painter friends about it and we came up with the idea what if we could make an art and poetry biopic, that would form a moving portrait of a man that includes performance, painting and poetry in three chapters of his life. Starting with the young and vibrant portraiture by Tania Rivilis, moving to Preslav Kostov melancholic middle age and finally the depth of old age by Francien Krieg. Each of these three brilliant painters creating at the highest level, their voices shining through each portrait and perfectly suited to captured each chapter. I performed the piece somewhat in the subject’s voice and his unique accent from Yorkshire. The poem was mostly inspired by an interview that David did with my late father Peter Fuller, as they both wrestled with the topics of artistic integrity and ethics in art, fascinating to see how these ideas both stayed with him and evolved over time. I created the GAN latent spaces to be evocative of ripples on the surface of a swimming pool. Full poem beow.
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Portrait Of A Painter
by Laurence Fuller
The colors of a swimming pool,
Glimmer like fragments of shattered love,
The surface like a curtain,
To the cool evenings of crimson and purple,
Falling through water for certain,
Where to put the pictures,
On the walls of my mind,
Or the image of you in the distance,
Left my awards on the top shelf,
Man of the people crying out for help,
A crisis in art,
Where to draw the line, elucidate color,
The Renaissance ended, yet we have just begun,
And the unsung heroes of imagination support one another,
For the same sensation that lifted up your generation,
There’s a blue guitar in the corner that nobody plays anymore,
And a wrinkled notebook of half finished poems on the floor,
Portraits of all the people I push towards,
Despite their shadows and protestations of never more,
Theories divide, but remember the most important things in life,
Art is the universal dimensions of beauty where we unify,
A portrait of identity,
My thoughts, my eyes, my friends on the wall more like my family,
California’s the place for me.