Malcolm LE GRICE b. 1940
"In Little Dog for Roger, the image is a consequence of the process of its making. It is a residual trace of process attempting to prioritize experience over language" (Malcolm Le Grice, 2005. "I Am A Cinematographer", Frieze Magazine).
The artist works on the film stock as a medium: scratches, dirt, holes, blank screen, gaps in the soundtrack and other faults are exposed and emphasised in the film, whilst the little dog runs on the screen and fades out. The artist’s childhood film is saturated with the process of post-production, which in turn transforms the memory into celluloid and abstraction.
This exhibition creates a new installation that reinvestigates the 1967 film as the original 9.5mm home movie.
Exhibitions
1968. Malcolm Le Grice: Location? Duration, Arts Laboratory Drury Lane, London, UK
1973. Filmaktion, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1974.Projekt '74, Cologne, Germany
1976.Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
1977.Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1977.Film als Film, Cologne, Berlin and Essen, Germany
1979.Film as Film, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2000.Live in Your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2002. Shoot Shoot Shoot, Tate Modern, London (touring), UK
2011. Malcolm Le Grice: Le Temps des Images, Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourgogne, France
2012.Filmaktion, Tate Modern, London, UK
2012. Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Literature
Beauvais, Yann, ed., 2015. Malcolm Le Grice: Le Temps des Images. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, 310-311.
Curtis, David, 2007. A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain. London: BFI, 206.
Le Grice, Malcolm, 2005. "I Am A Cinematographer", Frieze, Issue 90.
Michalka, Matthias, ed., 2004. X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 137-138.
Moure, Gloria, ed., 2004. Behind the facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975. Barcelona Ediciones Poligrafa, 409-410.