SEVEN STONES

28/01/2014
Les aventures de Sophie

SEVEN STONES by FRANK SCHEFFER
an artist film about artist painter
ROBERT ZANDVLIET
screened yesterday at iffr
the painter summarises his
uncompromising search for truth as
‘een leeg beeld en een stille taal’
(an empty image and a mute language)
the artist filming the painter said he chose
him as a subject ‘because of the juxtaposition
with the way my Bolex camera works’
halfway the portrait scheffer
introduces the voice of chinese
calligraphist and painter mi-fu
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images:
Robert Zandvliet at work by Michiel van Nieuwkerk for 21C Dutch Masters.
Robert Zandvliet, Seven Stones (Cha cha cha), 2013, egg tempera on linen, 172 x 144 cm, posted on BlouinArtInfo.
Tower of the Rising Clouds (雲起樓圖) , hanging scroll, ink on silk, 150.0 x 78.8 cm, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Attributed to Mi Fu (米芾, 1051-1107), Song Dynasty (960-1279).