seARTS presents Andy Goldsworthy film
"Rivers and Tides"
at the Gloucester Cinema -
Tuesday March 25 at 6:30 pm
The Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (seARTS)
will present Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time on Tuesday, March 25 as the premiere of the 2008
seARTS' Film Series. This visually stunning, award-winning documentary by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer features internationally acclaimed Scottish
sculptor Andy Goldsworthy as he creates, and nature acts on, his work. Goldsworthy's materials are found in the natural world: ice, stone, leaves, wood,
and snow.
Goldsworthy's landscape sculpture, much of it fleeting due to melting, decay, the effects of the tides, wind, and sun, has been
constructed in locations around the world from the North Pole to Japan to the Storm King Center in New York. He states, "I want to get under the surface.
When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave
it, these processes continue." Several books on Goldsworthy present photographic images of his work.
Cape Ann's environment of granite, ocean, marsh, rivers, and woods draws people to its natural beauty and invites a consideration of
Goldsworthy's thinking about landscape and sculpture.
The audience is welcome to join a discussion following the film with architect and public artist Rob Trumbour, a Rockport resident, and
architect and landscape architect Mark Klopfer. Both are on the faculty at the Wentworth Institute of Technology and incorporate
Goldsworthy's inspiration and approach to site-specific creations in their teaching and work.
Trumbour, a board member of the Rockport arts education group Art Harbor, Inc., recently created two photo-embedded illuminated ice-block
sculptures in Rockport (see February 29, 2008 story in the
Gloucester Times.) He is developing additional outdoor installations for winter 2009.
seARTS Film Series is part of a Community/Visitor Education Program funded in part by the John and Abigail Adams Art Program from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council, and corporate support provided by Renco Corporation, Manchester.
"Rivers and Tides" will be shown
Tuesday, March 25 at 6:30pm and followed by a discussion. Gloucester Cinema, 74 Essex St. (Rt. 133), Gloucester. Tel: 978-283-9188
Tickets are $7 for seARTS members; $12 for adults; and $9 for seniors and students.
To purchase tickets online visit click here or call (978) 281-1222
