Movie People, 2009-2014
Series, dimensions variable.
© Dorothy Iannone. Photo: M HKA
“Around 1966, I made a few hundred wooden cutouts of everyone in the world I could think of, real people, mythological people, invented people, and I always included their sexual organs even if they were fully dressed (…) Making The Movie People seems like the closing of a circle. Early in my work, I used texts from writers whom I loved, such as Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra. Later, I used my own writings and my own story. And now, in my super twilight years, I return to the inspiration of lovers who are not myself, although now I use my own words to narrate their history and call attention to their exemplary lives. The Movie People are painted cutouts, mounted on wood of scenes from my favorite films about unconditional loves, or at least, about the sacrifice of one's own happiness for the sake of the beloved.”
Dorothy Iannone, from Maurizio Cattelan, An interview with Dorothy Iannone in Pleased To Meet You: Dorothy Iannone, deluxe fanzine published by Semiose éditions, number 3, February 2017, p.5
As part of the exhibition, DE CINEMA proposes a programme with various films related to Dorothy Iannone's series Movie People.
12.11.2023: The Sheltering Sky (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1990. 35mm)
10.12.2023: My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985)
14.01.2024: Pandora And The Flying Dutchman (Albert Lewin, 1951)
Media
>Dorothy Iannone, The Sheltering Sky, 2010 Courtesy Peres Projects
>Dorothy Iannone, Les Amants, 2010 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA) Collection Dominique Amaudruz et Jean-Louis Guiramand, Monaco
>Dorothy Iannone, The Sheltering Sky, 2010 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA) Courtesy Peres Projects
>Dorothy Iannone, My Beautiful Laundrette, 2014 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA)
>Dorothy Iannone, The Last Train, 2010 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA)
>Dorothy Iannone, The Piano, 2009 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA)
>Dorothy Iannone, Pandora And The Flying Dutchman, 2009 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA) Private Collection
>Dorothy Iannone, Brokeback Mountain, 2010 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA) Fondation pour les Arts
>Morocco, 2009 (installation view, Dorothy Iannone – Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? October 5, 2023 – 21 January 2024, 2024, M HKA) Collection Merino, Monaco
>The Eye Of The Needle, 2010 Collection frac Ïle-de-France
>Serpentine Galleries Park Nights 2018: Dorothy Iannone, Movie People Perpetual Performance On 13 July 2018 Dorothy Iannone presented Movie People Perpetual Performance, an evening based on her ongoing Movie People project, featuring a series of wooden cut-out characters that Iannone started in the 1960s. Assembling all her Movie People together for the first time, Iannone accompanied them with stories of unconditional loves and lovers who sacrifice their own happiness or even their own lives for the sake of their beloved.
Artist
> Dorothy Iannone.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Dorothy Iannone — Love Is Forever, Isn’t It?. M HKA, Antwerpen, Leuvenstraat 32, 05 October 2023 - 21 January 2024.
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> Ensemble: THE CROWD.