Screening and Talk
The Importance of Being Elsewhere
Films on Ashley Bickerton
Sunday, September 10, 2023, 3pm
Anthology Film Archives, New York
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Join Gagosien for a film screening and conversation in conjunction with Ashley Bickerton: Susie’s Mother Tongue, an exhibition of more than twenty-five paintings and sculptures by the artist at Gagosien, West 21st Street, New York. The evening will feature the premiere of The Importance of Being Elsewhere, a short documentary by director Thomas Nordanstad including footage of the artist in his Bali studio during his final year, as well as interviews with Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and others. Looking for Something Beyond (2018), directed by Roddy Bogawa in collaboration with Bickerton, and The Love Story of Pythagoras Redhill (1981), made by Bickerton while a student at CalArts, will also be screened. Following the films, Bogawa, Juliano-Villani, and Nordanstad will discuss the artist’s life and practice and the legacy he leaves behind.
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Still from The Importance of Being Elsewhere (2023), directed by Thomas Nordanstad. Artwork © Ashley Bickerton
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Ashley Bickerton rose to prominence in the mid-1980s with a succession of ironic, abstracted constructions focused on questions of consumerism and identity. Since relocating to the Indonesian island of Bali in the early 1990s, he has explored cultural dislocation in paintings and sculptures with an ornate, handcrafted aesthetic, the works’ elaborate styling and tongue-in-cheek feel contrasting sharply with the conceptual detachment of his previous output. In more recent years, Bickerton has brought his practice full circle, addressing the exploitation and enduring power of nature in the face of technology.
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