Last year’s largest ever Hieronymus Bosch
retrospective at his home town in Holland has been widely acclaimed as one of
the greatest exhibitions of this century. Now, starting this weekend, Durban
movie audiences have the perfect opportunity to see the exhibition displaying
the principal works of this great painter (1450-1516) via the camera of
acclaimed art documentary maker Phil Grabsky.
The exhibition, Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius, which took place last year in
Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands, is perfect for the Exhibition on Screen
treatment and Grabsky duly obliges in this 100-minute film.
The curators managed to borrow 36 of
Bosch’s 44 surviving masterpieces – both paintings and drawings. Grabsky’s
camera lingers on Bosch’s intricate depictions of animals, monsters and
religious scenes, including some breathtaking close-ups, while talking heads
such as film director Peter Greenaway put them in context and explain how the
exhibition came to be.
The movie, entitled The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch, will be screened this
weekend at Gateway Nouveau on May 6 (Saturday) at 19h30 and on May 7 (Sunday)
at 14h30. The film will be re-screened on Wednesday and Thursday next week (May
10 and 11) at 19h30.
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