Guido van der Werve
Talk and film screening
November 19, 2009 — November 19, 2009
Event
Dutch artist, Guido van der Werve talks about his works in the exhibition Living Time and presents the Canadian premiere of his new film nummer twalf (number twelve) variations on a theme. The king's gambit accepted, the number of stars in the sky and why a piano can't be tuned, or waiting for an earthquake (2009). 40 minutes.
The artist talk will be given in English - Programmed by Sarah Watson
465, St-Jean
7 PM
Biography
Born in Papendracht, Netherlands in 1977 and now a resident of New York, NY, Guido van der Werve pursued studies in industrial design, archaeology music composition and Russian language and literature at several universities in the Netherlands before beginning to create his first video documented
performances around 2000. Since that time he has created a variety of works, including a series of film and videos and a musical composition titled by number in chronological order from two to twelve. He recently presented his new work work, nummer twaalf (number twelve) (2009) at the MoMA and will be a participant in Performa 09.
Website: www.roofvogel.org