rolex arts weekend
celebrating a global creative community
new york city
10 to 13 november 2007
Rolex presents a series of performances, screenings, readings and talks featuring the artists of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The Arts Initiative, founded in 2002, pairs rising stars in Dance, Theatre, Film, Music, Visual Arts and Literature with internationally renowned masters for a year of mentorship. Current and previous Rolex mentors and protégés gather in New York to present work during the Rolex Arts Weekend, a multi-generational showcase of exceptional creative talent.
Admission to all events is free of charge.
visual arts
Retrospective, a new collaborative work by John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco
3 November to 11 December
Artists' talk Saturday 10 November, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.,
reception to follow.
Murray Guy, 453 W 17th St.
Admission is free of charge.
Rolex protégé in Visual Arts Alejandro Cesarco and his mentor, the venerable and provocative artist, John Baldessari, have collaborated on Retrospective, a series of twelve 36" x 48" silk-screens on aluminium sheets, edition of two, with two additional artists' proofs. Retrospective deals with the idea of looking back, how meaning is re-contextualised through memory, framing, selecting, re-telling and continuance of a dialogue, history and the acknowledgment of influence. The segmentation of history is an arbitrary and conventional matter, a story for making the present intelligible. Implicit in the project is a concern for the difference created by retelling and representing the past in the present.
The artists will discuss the work and their collaboration with Hans Ulrich-Obrist, co-director of exhibitions and programmes and director of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
Presented in association with Marian Goodman Gallery, The New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts.
film
Screenings of work from the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
10 November, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Walter Reade Theater, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza (165 West 65th St.)
Admission is free of charge, but reservations are required. To reserve, please e-mail RMPfilm@earthlink.net.
A potent combination of international talent comes together in this evening of works by emerging international film-makers, introduced by Spanish writer and director Carlos Saura. The current protégé in Film, Josué Méndez (mentored by Stephen Frears), presents his first feature, Días de Santiago, an evocative story about a war veteran's return to civilian life. Días de Santiago has won 30 international prizes to become Peru's most-awarded film ever. A short film, And There in the Dust, by the 2004/2005 protégée in Theatre, Lara Foot Newton, is adapted from a play she wrote and directed, Tshepang. A trailer for the feature Estrellas, by the 2002/2003 protégé in Theatre, Federico León, rounds out the programme. A Question and Answer session moderated by Carlos Saura will follow the screenings.
Presented in association with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The New School Writing Program, and Eugene Lang College the New School for Liberal Arts.