#32 The Show about Time
Duck pickpocket… what’s the story here?
My big brother and me, by Elin Elkehad, 2017
In the early 1990s my older brother Danny wrote a screenplay that became the movie (and Broadway show) “Groundhog Day” starring Bill Murray. The film is considered one of the top comedies in film history, but perhaps more cool than that, the expression “groundhog day” entered popular culture to mean “repeating something over and over endlessly” and Danny is considered an expert on things about time. As photography is its own surreal exploration of time, I wondered if he’d have anything to say in a conversation about time, family, art, photography, or other brother-stuff.
There’s also a book! http://www.howtowritegroundhogday.com/
Danny’s Website: www.dannyrubin.com
“Confrontation” (1976), by Jiří Anderle (http://baruchfoundation.org/anderle/) - The Rubins also grew up around a large collection of these Czech etchings. It’s a wonder we’re not all insane…
“Sequere Me” (1975)
Jiri Anderle is a Czechoslovakian painter and graphic artist best known for his delicate and ghostly etchings of the human form. Working in an aesthetic that recalls the sketches of Leonardo da Vinci, Anderle depicts human existence and mortality with works that appear to be medical drawings from some eccentric 18th-century surgeon. Born on September 14, 1936 in Pavlíkov, Czechoslovakia, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. With his rigorous formal training, he was able to apply Older Master techniques to his contemporary work and achieve a high level of anatomical realism. Today, his works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Albertina in Vienna, among others. Anderle lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. [from Artnet]
Rubin’s Portfolio of Photography | Rubin’s Instagram (@droidmaker)
Suzanne’s Instagram (@sfritzhanson)
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