Julian Schnabel at his studio in New York

The american artist Julian Schnabel became famous in the early 1980s for his plate paintings. He also made a name for himself as a director and screenplay writer with his first film, which was about his friend and fellow artist, "Jean-Michel Basquiat" (1996) and his second film, "Before Night Falls". He has exhibited in all the world's greatest museums and his works can be found in outstanding public and private collections.
In this short Schnabel talkes about his series of over painted Polaroids. The original Polaroids Schnabel used a huge, spectacular 20 x 24-inch Polaroid camera on wheels dating from the 1970s to create unusually large-format images (51 x 61 cm) which are now exhibited at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf (30.05.-11.07).

Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie
A film by Ralph Goertz
© IKS/Ralph Goertz 2010
music by Julian Schnabel/jused by permission
iks-medienarchiv.de
nrw-forum.de

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[vanrijngo]

Cool Julian, but I'd say you need to make another film you can sell for a million,... as you bail out of it before it becomes a finished flop.

[01Rising]

Cool stuff, but I would do so MUCH more with that amazing space!! :))

[Mr123zazak]

"blah blah blah" "I just think I look cool in pajamas"

3 minutes with nothing meaningful to hear or learn. Ok, so you enlarged the goddamn Polaroid and splashed some paint on it. See, it took me 2 seconds to say it.

I think j. Schnabel is a good filmmaker, otherwise he is just a sham that is full of himself.

[Tomster2007]

I usually hate it when artists talk about their work. But Julian does a good job of it.