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Vern
The film tells the unusual story of Vernon Koski, an unrecognized painter who is now an infamous painting. Through a series of fateful occurrences spanning 46 years, the aspiring painter Vernon Koski was posthumously immortalized on canevas. Samuel Yates, a conceptual artist whose postmodern work had already garnered international recognition, used the cremated remains of Vernon Koski to create a striking painting that now hangs in the permanent collection of the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art. Vern, who never achieved artistic recognition in life, has now become, in Yates’s words, “his own life’s work”. The film explore the importance of art, culture, fame and notoriety in our society and why some people “make it” at a young age while others, after a lifetime of struggle, die unknown. Is it talent, discipline, luck, or marketing savvy which has the most impact on a career in the contemporary art world ?
USA - 2003 - 29 mn - 16 mm - Colour and B&W
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