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In this conversation with Isaac Julien, hear about the artist’s practice and first US retrospective, "I Dream a World." Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Julien’s film installations and videos made over the course of 25 years, presenting a compelling fusion of fact and fiction, social critique, and aesthetic immersion.
About the speakers
Sir Isaac Julien (b. 1960) is a critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker. In 2018, Julien joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is a distinguished professor of the arts and leads the Moving Image Lab together with arts professor Mark Nash. Recent international solo exhibitions include "Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me," Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2024); K21, Dusseldorf, Germany (2023); Tate Britain, London (2023); and "Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement," Philadelphia Museum of Art (2023).
Claudia Schmuckli joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2016 as curator in charge of contemporary art and programming. Previously she was director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, where she forged a reputation as a pivotal figure in the presentation of contemporary art. Before coming to the Blaffer Art Museum, Schmuckli worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She holds an MA in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
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Thumbnail image credit: Isaac Julien, "When the Tree Blooms (Ten Thousand Waves)," 2010. Endura Ultra photograph, 70 7/8 x 94 1/2 in. (180 x 240 cm). © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, London and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
In this conversation with Isaac Julien, hear about the artist’s practice and first US retrospective, "I Dream a World." Led by Claudia Schmuckli, curator in charge of contemporary art and programming, this talk explores Julien’s film installations and videos made over the course of 25 years, presenting a compelling fusion of fact and fiction, social critique, and aesthetic immersion.
About the speakers
Sir Isaac Julien (b. 1960) is a critically acclaimed British artist and filmmaker. In 2018, Julien joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is a distinguished professor of the arts and leads the Moving Image Lab together with arts professor Mark Nash. Recent international solo exhibitions include "Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me," Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2024); K21, Dusseldorf, Germany (2023); Tate Britain, London (2023); and "Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement," Philadelphia Museum of Art (2023).
Claudia Schmuckli joined the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2016 as curator in charge of contemporary art and programming. Previously she was director and chief curator of the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, where she forged a reputation as a pivotal figure in the presentation of contemporary art. Before coming to the Blaffer Art Museum, Schmuckli worked at the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. She holds an MA in art history from the Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
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Thumbnail image credit: Isaac Julien, "When the Tree Blooms (Ten Thousand Waves)," 2010. Endura Ultra photograph, 70 7/8 x 94 1/2 in. (180 x 240 cm). © Isaac Julien. Courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro, London and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
![[FRENCH] Jules Tavernier: Un artiste français en Californie](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xIDZq27wfvQ/mqdefault.jpg "[FRENCH] Jules Tavernier: Un artiste français en Californie
Le peintre français Jules Tavernier (1844-1889) était l’un des plus talentueux de l’Ouest américain grâce à un don naturel que beaucoup estimaient inégalable. Ses studios de San Francisco et de Monterey sont devenus lâme de la toute jeune scène artistique de Californie. Cette présentation virtuelle de Claudine Chalmers, historienne indépendante et auteure de Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer, se penche sur sa vision de lart, sur ses tableaux, et sur limportance quil donnait à l’atmosphère productive du studio d’art, une vision qui a fondamentalement influencé celle de nombreux autres artistes californiens. Le Dr Chalmers nous guidera à travers son parcours et la formation qui a forgé son identité en tant que peintre français, ses partenariats productifs avec d’autres artistes Français comme Paul Frenzeny et son lancement de Monterey en tant que destination pour la peinture en plein air.
Watch this presentation in English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBqxBecJ_54")
