Video documentation of the October 7, 2021 (5 – 6:15 PM EST) performance of Cinema and Painting presented by Franklin Furnace and Stefan Hayn.
As a Berlin based painter and filmmaker, Stefan Hayn (*1965) rediscovered painting through cinematic approaches, especially along the questions about ”representative authenticity” in so-called ”documentary films”.
In his lecture he will talk about relationships between cinema and painting and show his film MALEREI HEUTE/PAINTING NOW. Hayn’s focus is directed less on the blending of painting’s and cinema’s modes of production and reception, as usually happens in ”new media“, but rather on the collision of their different pictorial and narrative potential, trying to make socio-political effects of today’s media communication perceptible.
In his current project, he draws on Fairfield Porter’s practical and essayistic approaches to painting.
ARTIST BIO
Stefan Hayn (*1965) is a Berlin based painter and filmmaker. His work is situated in the fields of visual art and cinema. In his paintings and films he investigates relations of old and new, image and narration (of life), individuality and socialization. His films ”Fontvella’s Box“ (1991), ”What to put on top of Jack Smith’s Memorial Christmas Tree?” (1994), ”A Film about the Worker“ (1997), ”Painting Now“ (1998-2005, in collaboration with Anja-Christin Remmert), ”STRAUB“ (2006-2014) or ”Bread, Revenge?“ (2019) explore the gaps between affirmation and subversion, progress and regress, artistic form and critical content. He was a fellow at Franklin Furnace, at the Graduate School for the Arts and the Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts, at Kuenstlerhaus Buechsenhausen Innsbruck/Austria and at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris. His films have been shown at many international festivals, in exhibitions, and museums.
Funded by The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe, The New York City for Cultural Affairs and Franklin Furnace.
