American art megastar Julian Schnabel (born 1951) has made a metier
of both painting and film, and while he is equally acclaimed for
his achievements in each of these disciplines, the works have often
been kept separate in the public eye. Yet Schnabel's painting has
drawn on cinematic imagery for years, often connecting otherwise
disparate work via this theme, and his award-winning films have
drawn on art both formally and as subject matter-most famously in
the 1996 hit "Basquiat." Schnabel himself resists categorization:
"I make art," he says,"whether it is painting, writing, photography
or making a movie." This survey of Schnabel's career to date
presents the artist's painterly production, from the 1970s through
to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his
numerous critically acclaimed movies-"Basquiat" (1996), "Before
Night Falls" (2000), "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (2007) and
his newest film "Miral," which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict. The complete scripts of each of these movies are
featured, punctuated with stills chosen by Schnabel. Published for
the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2010 survey, "Julian Schnabel: Art and
Film" is the first appraisal of how Schnabel works across media,
bridging painting, writing and cinema.
Julian Schnabel was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His
first solo show was at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston in
1976, but it was with his 1979 exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery
in New York that Schnabel first asserted his presence as a
figurehead for new possibilities in painting. Retrospectives of his
work have been mounted by Tate Gallery, London (1983), the Whitney
Museum of American Art (1987) and Museo Nacionale Centro de Arte
Reina Sophia, Madrid (2004), among many others. He made his
cinematic debut in 1996 with his account of the life of Jean-Michel
Basquiat, which starred Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman
and Dennis Hopper. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" earned him
Best Director both at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden
Globes, and an Academy Award nomination in this same category.
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