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12 Jan – 14 Apr 2024

Outdoor Screen

Outdoor Screen: Mark Lewis

  • Mark Lewis

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    Mark Lewis (Canadian, b. 1958) is an artist based in London, UK. Known for his investigation of the cinematic image and its representation of modernity, Lewis is interested in exploring how the pictorial tradition “can continue through film and if so, how that tradition itself has been transformed by film.” Lewis trained at Harrow College of Art and Polytechnic of Central London. He worked in Vancouver and Toronto before moving to the UK, where he is Professor of Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall – A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry and editor of Afterall Books. His works have been exhibited extensively in North America and internationally in solo exhibitions such as at The Power Plant, Toronto and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. In 2007, Lewis received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Brit Art Doc Foundation Award and in 2009, Lewis represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

     

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As part of the exhibition Aporia (Notes to a Medium), the Belkin’s Outdoor Screen will show Mark Lewis’s From Third Beach 1 (2010) daily from 9 am to 9 pm.

Shot in the middle of the day on Vancouver’s Third Beach, Lewis’s film quotes the classic Hollywood technique of “day for night,” in which the light of the sun is manipulated to stand in for the moon in filmmaking. Until the 1960s and the advent of higher speed film, this technique was used to create a night-time effect in cinema and produced a highly stylized and formal image that bore little resemblance to the actual appearance of night, even during a full moon. In foregrounding this eerie and stylized footage,  often only seen as a backdrop, Lewis reveals the perceptual slippages – and doubt – in image-making.

Image (above): Mark Lewis, From Third Beach 1, 2010. Collection of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, gift of Roger Larry and Sandra Tomc

  • Mark Lewis

    Artist

    Mark Lewis (Canadian, b. 1958) is an artist based in London, UK. Known for his investigation of the cinematic image and its representation of modernity, Lewis is interested in exploring how the pictorial tradition “can continue through film and if so, how that tradition itself has been transformed by film.” Lewis trained at Harrow College of Art and Polytechnic of Central London. He worked in Vancouver and Toronto before moving to the UK, where he is Professor of Fine Art at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London. He is co-founder and co-editor of Afterall – A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry and editor of Afterall Books. His works have been exhibited extensively in North America and internationally in solo exhibitions such as at The Power Plant, Toronto and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. In 2007, Lewis received the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and the Brit Art Doc Foundation Award and in 2009, Lewis represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

     

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