Tickets include access to the Minimal exhibition.
In resonance with the exhibition Minimal, films by artists featured in the exhibition – Charlotte Posenenske, Richard Serra, Nancy Holt, Walter De Maria, and Agnes Martin – will be screened at the Auditorium during the Friday late-night openings.
The series concludes with an exceptional screening of Gabriel (1976), the only completed film by American artist Agnes Martin, shown for the first time in Paris.
Shot in California, Colorado, and New Mexico with an Arriflex camera, Gabriel follows a young boy, played by Peter Mayne, standing by the sea, walking through a forest, and climbing a mountain. These scenes alternate with long shots of streams, flower fields, forest trees, and other natural elements encountered on his journey. At several moments, excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations are heard in this otherwise silent film.
In a 1989 interview, Agnes Martin said she made Gabriel “to protest against negative commercial films — those about deception, lies, and violence. I decided to make a film about happiness, beauty, and innocence, to see if audiences would respond.”
