Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti | Art21 “Exclusive”
Episode #101: Luca Bonetti leads the installation of artist Julie Mehretu’s massive painting “Mural” (2009) at Goldman Sachs, coordinating a team of installers and studio assistants.
Julie Mehretu’s paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings’ wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu’s delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.
Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretu
VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Nick Ravich. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Thanks: Luca Bonetti; Travis Fitzgerald; Goldman, Sachs, & Co.; and Harmony Murphy.
Duration : 0:6:31
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Thats right, see three paintings being done in this video! I have to have a little fun too so.
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A very basic introduction to Impressionism, from a HS Art History survey course.