Gus Van Sant

Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

Sculpture, Unknown, Russell Tovey, Painting, Drawing, Art, Artist Interview, Arts, Studio Visit, Visual Arts, Art Talk, Contemporary Art, Entertainment, Celebrity, Modern Art, Artwork, Talk Art, Robert Diament

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Season 18 begins!!! We meet GUS VAN SANT, iconic American film director, producer, painter, photographer and musician. We discuss his deconstructed Mona Lisa series, his friendship with Derek Jarman and how he became a painter in his teens, the lasting influence of his art teacher, and how painting informed his filmmaking!!!

Gus Van Sant (b. 1952, Louisville, Kentucky), admired internationally as a filmmaker, painter, photographer, and musician, received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1975. Since that time his studio painting practice has moved in and out of the foreground of a multi-disciplinary career, becoming a priority again over recent years. Van Sant’s work in different mediums is united by a single overarching interest in portraying people on the fringes of society.

Van Sant’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, Le Case d’Arte in Milan, Italy, and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon in Eugene, among others. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions since the 1980s, presenting drawings, paintings, photographs, video works, and writing. Among Van Sant’s many internationally acclaimed feature films are Milk (2008); Elephant (2003); Good Will Hunting (1997); My Own Private Idaho (1991); and Drugstore Cowboy (1989).

Van Sant lives and works in Los Angeles.

Follow @Gus_Van_Sant

Visit Gus' gallery @VitoSchnabelGallery: https://www.vitoschnabel.com/projects/gus-van-sant

Feud: Capote's Women forthcoming TV series will air later this year (starring Talk Art’s very own Russell Tovey as John O'Shea, longtime boyfriend of Truman Capote). @RyanMurphyProductions

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1:04.0	Good afternoon, good morning, good evening, wherever you are in the world, I am Ruska Toby.
1:08.0	And I'm Robert Diamond.
1:09.0	And this is TalkArt.
1:10.0	Welcome to TalkArt.
1:12.0	How are you today, Robert?
1:13.0	Today, Russell, I am feeling like Mona.
1:18.0	And I don't mean like Mona because I know I do Mona a lot.
1:23.0	I am a bit of a nag aren't I?
1:25.0	Yes, an old nag.
1:27.0	As a best friend to you.
1:29.0	I'm actually talking about the wonderful, the one and only Mona Lisa.
1:33.0	And I've been thinking a lot about Mona Lisa while researching to those guests, which some listeners might not actually necessarily associate with him because he is primarily known at least in the 90s when we were growing up.
1:45.0	He is like the greatest filmmaker ever, pretty much, and has really told LGBT stories through cinema for a really long time and made some extraordinary movies all the way from his debut, Malanoche through to the iconic drugstore cowboy.
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