The Cardboard Bernini| 1hr : 16mins
Director: Olympia Stone | Producer: Olympia Stone
Focus Years: 2012 | Country: United States
Synopsis:
"The Cardboard Bernini," examines the work and life of artist James Grashow as he spends four years building a giant cardboard fountain inspired by the work of the famous Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
James Grashow is an artist who has made—among many other things—giant 15 foot tall fighting men, an anthropomorphized city, and an ocean-- using papier-mâché, fabric, chicken wire and cardboard. More recently, he has begun making sculptures entirely out of corrugated cardboard and twist ties.
Several years ago, while visiting the home of his art dealer, Allan Stone (who was also my father), Grashow stumbled across his giant papier-mâché fighting men that had been put outside due to lack of space. They were disintegrating. Although it was deeply painful and shocking for Jimmy to see his work like that, it was also surprisingly beautiful.
Feeling that he hadn’t been honest with himself about the full arc of his creative endeavors, and the inevitable decay of his art, he challenged himself to own the “back end†of his process by building something magnificent that he would install outside to disintegrate. He decided to build a giant cardboard “fountainâ€-- a Grashow “Bernini.†Work on the fountain began in 2007, and was completed in 2011.
We follow as Jimmy asks what is the point of art and creation? What is the connection between creation and destruction? And, ultimately, how do we find meaning when we are faced with mortality?
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The Cardboard Bernini
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