Christie projectors show movie art in museum

sponsored article, 02 March 2010

Born 1967 in London, Sarah Morris creates pictures, and since 1998, has also been making films which deal with the urban, social and societal typologies of the present. In 2009, the MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt dedicated a comprehensive individual exhibition to Sarah Morris for which she created her most monumental mural painting to date.

As part of this exhibition, Sarah Morris' latest film, Beijing, which focuses on the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, was shown for the first time in Europe. According to the MMK, she as thereby achieved "the spectacular portrayal of a neo-capitalistic state in an extreme phase of self-stylization and control mania". "In my film, Beijing is a place about which I want to have a fantasy. I do not claim any truth for my version of Beijing," said Morris.

In addition visitors were also able to watch Morris' film "Capital" about Washington D.C . in 2001, in which she interweaves the tail end of the Clinton administration with the "normal" city life of the metropolis. A 30 minute film in 16:9 format.

Christie HD8K 3-chip DLP projectors, with a light output of 8,000 ANSI lumens each, were used for both projections. In an earlier exhibition in London, Sarah Morris had worked with Christie HD projectors and, since she was fully satisfied with the devices, also wanted to assure a maximum of quality as part of this exhibition. Therefore, the exhibition curator of the MMK, Sophie von Olfers, contacted Christie in search of appropriate devices, who referred her to one of the leading technology service providers in the industry - LUXAV, headquartered in Lohfelden (Germany), with subsidiaries in Munich, Berlin, Bonn and Hamburg.

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