Werner Herzog at the Whitney Museum
May 17, 2012: Inimitable filmmaker Werner Herzog discusses his contribution to the Biennial, "Hearsay of the Soul," and his thoughts on contemporary art with exhibition co-curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders. The 2012 Biennial runs through May 27, 2012 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Full house for this #lunchtimelecture by Werner Herzog @whitneymuseum http://pic.twitter.com/q2qQ6Zbq- L to R: Biennial curator Jay Sanders, Werner Herzog, and Biennial curator Elisabeth Sussman. twitpic.com/9m34ky #whibi
- Read about Herzog's Biennial installation, Hearsay of the Soul, on the Whitney's website. The projected image above is an installation shot of the five channel installation.
- Seghers is not very well-known today. Visit his Wikipedia page.
- Much of Seghers' work is in the collection of the Reijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
- View "Ode to the Dawn of Man," Herzog's short film of Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger's performance that he incorporated into Hearsay of the Soul.
- Herzog had used Reijseger's music before for other films but felt it would lend itself well to Seghers. twitpic.com/9m3bi2 #whibi
"How does music, how does sound morph and dance with the images?"—Herzog @whitneymuseum #whibi- Herzog considers the landscape in his film Last Words one of the few similarities b/w his work & Seghers'. twitpic.com/9m3fff #whibi
- I was mistaken--this is from Herzog's 1968 film Signs of Life.
'I always morph into this figure': Herzog loves his Grunewald @whitneymuseum #whibi http://pic.twitter.com/5DqEy9p3- Matthias Grünewald , An Apostle from the Transfiguration, c. 1511
- Herzog is interested in the landscape backgrounds of Renaissance paintings. Here, a Da Vinci detail. #whibi twitpic.com/9m3min
