Movies: "Velvet chainsaw"
ARTinvestment.RU   01 мая 2020

In our new segment, we will analyze artistic and documentary movies, partially or completely devoted to the art market

"Velvet chainsaw" (Original title: VelvetBuzsaw)
Director: Dan Gilroy
year: 2019
113 min.
film: Netflix, USA

By long-standing Hollywood tradition screenplay writing at least three people. The first is narrative, the second gives the dialogues, the third is responsible for the connectivity of the scenes and follow the precepts of Aristotle. During the development of the blockbuster writing team expanded to ten: added to those who are responsible for the humor in the picture, Bricolage (unexpected for the audience) turns, placing commercial brands in the frame and compliance with company policy-прокатчика, tolerance and other rough edges of modern society. Auteur cinema, where the Director acts and the author of the script, — is a completely different story. Released in 2019 on Netflix the movie "Velvet Chainsaw" it in this series.

the script of the film contains a lot of insider information related to the internal kitchen art-рынка. For such a fine work has been invited consultant David Handley — is an independent exhibition curator LACMA, County Museum of art Los-Анджелес. However, in social networks David confirmed his involvement to only created for the film paintings and objects — by the way, those were more than a hundred. Therefore, the insider who provided-то another. However the identity of this person is not important — is much more interesting to track spot market characteristics throughout the film. What are going to do a sneak peek at the film in the original on Netflix and for comparison — in Russian translation.

the Story, according to the classics successful movie fits in one sentence: living pictures kill the owners. This is not a spoiler, the audience is expected: the story is completely told him the trailer. The full version of the film digs a little deeper: it turns out, pictures of kill not all, but only those who gave "pure art" in favor of commercial relations. The knife is taken not only of the canvases painted by a manic artist in his own blood, — to help them come all the art-объекты in the field of view of the characters.

Actually, this description of the story ends. Is it possible to transfer stars cast: Jake Gyllenhaal (influential and incorruptible art-критик, genuinely earned the right to praise or hate for the proposed review of art@the semicolon of course, homosexual), John Malkovich (in the past, the star of contemporary art, lost talent and inspiration after the failure of alcohol), Rene Russo (who played expert on counterfeiting in "the Thomas crown affair", and now — greedy gallerist; perhaps this is a hint directed to the fate of the heroine, once fought for "pure art").

Everyone who works in the financial benefit of the art market, will certainly smile, seeing the performance of the actors impossibly clear portraits:

— Famous artist who has lost inspiration after giving up alcohol and started drinking again, just to see pictures of a competitor (the key phrase of the hero: "Ideas come, but immediately kill themselves. Here <в workshop> I have a slaughter");

— Homeless artist from the streets who returns to his former life, not want to accept the rules of the market ("he's good", — reluctantly acknowledges the gallery owner, has lost him both time and money);

— gallery Owner — failed artist, take out the resentment on others (the key phrase of the hero: "My way — of the anarchist in the setter of flavors!");

— Girls-стажера, which in turn changed jobs in all major galleries in the city, each time moving to a new job with secrets of the old;

— Incorruptible art-критика, consolidating bills with artists solely for personal reasons ("I'm supposed to care about aesthetics? To whisper the truth? Then the world would be very dull");

— previously Unknown deceased artist, who suddenly find themselves thousands of created jobs (how not to hold parallel with a hereditary collector from Munich. That, however, art is not created, and stored. American critics are of the opinion that it is based on the history of Chicago artist Henry Darger, who left after the death of more than 1.5 million unidentified public works);

— Handyman galleries in the past of the artist. Of course, having their own opinion on any aesthetic reason, often scaring away buyers (the Key phrase of the hero: "I did it for the Bandini Hippo oat rings. I'm the one who pasted these rings!");

— Installation "Robobone" did not find a buyer at the next fair (the key phrase of art-дилера selling work: "Your review killed it! The work is not bought, and now it's gathering dust in a warehouse").

Notable second episodes — influences the time of the exhibition street-арта, framed in a frame and hung on the walls for sale;, a group of Chinese collectors with art-консультантом at the entrance to Art Basel; selfi on the background of thoughtless, but striking installation at the entrance to the fair; the same ringtones on the phone all the gallerists working in contemporary art; Playground of the kindergarten, who won the first art prize for curatorial approach; pupils, took the corpse with blood for the installation and Malaysia in her shoes.

deserve special mention and some of the dialogues:

— Sorry, but the list of First Choice (map, giving a right of passage for 4 hours before the others. — AI.) you don't have.

— Is a disgrace! We recently bought a Ultra World Shogun in new-Йорке!

— Our investments are not justified.

— do Not forget the tax incentive!

— I don't see anything new.

— is Nothing new since, as someone-то demanded a bone for viewing cave paintings!

— Sorry, these seats are only for relatives and friends.

— John started out in my gallery, so where else should I sit?

— Why do we need to withdraw most of the work from circulation?

— pier also does not expose all their diamonds at once. Otherwise they would cost the same as glass.

— I was offered to become a private art-консультантом. Can't say who, but now I can afford a beautiful car and a garden!

— I suggest <арт-критику> generous reward for any tip in the field of undervalued — to review, of course — art.

— I'll give two proprietary Dizy, if you buy three paintings Damlia on his show.

— But if my client does not need Damlich?

— You're art-консультант, consult!

— What is it?

— Is — emotions without unnecessary waste.

— what is the point?

— At your heartstrings.

— Ah, that's it!

— Is an art designed to the site, where there are all technical means!

— Yes, just to attract attention...

— In our Museum is no place for this exhibition!

— Move your "horse Penis" or "vagina Diamond". Or paste one show into another.

— Lilith van Landingham conquers the world revolutionary sound show. She won the Nam June Paik. Her new job — "baleen whale".

— In our time, the famous — one of the forms of art.

Bearded joke in the film, only one: garbage in the artist's Studio taken by the visitor for a masterpiece. But compared to other semantic diamonds we will pretend not to notice. However, and this applies to the Russian translation, there's a couple of annoying bugs. For example, the Art Basel fair called the exhibition. We understand that there are rules of translation from a substitute for professional concepts conventional, the absorption by the audience. However, the people who call the fair exhibition, as a rule, I don't think it is possible to buy. "Large-format paintings" —следующий injection translators — is well entrenched in our art-журналистике, there's nothing you can do about it. Nevertheless, it is useful to know that this term came from the printing business. In order not to burden the ears of the phrase "large-format paintings", the translators would have been better to say "large". Art-финансовой point of view, the worst damage inflicted phrase, addressed to the painter: "don't worry, our analysts with maximum precision considers your value" (in the original — maximize deal flow and global demand). Now in the mind of the viewer can be postponed, that the value of the artist is determined not by the market, and some analysts, and do it with varying degrees of accuracy. While in the original it was about forecasting the capitalization of the artist and her main markers: the flow of transactions and global demand.

As the coordination of all the real names and the names of the persons involved in art-рынка could take years, the filmmakers just rewrote his story again, creating not only a fictional galleries and artists, but the works themselves (more than 100 art objects appeared in the scenes). The real name of the movie only one — Art Basel, but it is not compromised, absolutely deserved the exposed centre of the world art-рынка. Special thanksthe creators of the film completed in 3D for the pavilion Convention Centre in Miami-Бич, at the time of filming were in the woods. Banners in the most fashionable colors of 2017 (Kale, curly cabbage color) — the next invisible touch detailed study artists paintings.

However, the main message — "art cannot betray money" — there is a small problem. Because if you are reading this on our website, so you at least have thought about the commercial side.



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