Twin Visions - A Screening
MONDAY AUGUST 24TH
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TWIN VISIONS
Jerome Witkin and Joel-Peter Witkin have shocked and stirred the art world for decades. Joel-Peter Witkin’s photography has famously influenced the worlds of glamour and music, inspiring important works by fashion designer Alexander McQueen and musician Marilyn Manson, to name a few. He is perceived as an enfant terrible, creating controversy wherever he goes.
Of Jerome Witkin’s paintings, Kenneth Baker once stated, “Witkin's only peer is Lucien Freud.” Both men enjoy passionate cult followings, yet few in the art world had any idea they were related, let alone were identical twins who had been estranged for half a century.
Los Angeles curator and gallery owner Jack Rutberg convinced the twins to reunite and hold their first-ever joint exhibition Twin Visions. The documentary wryly captures this historic moment with snippets of overheard conversations and interviews. The brothers open up and offer insights into the darkness and light that fuels their astonishing bodies of work.
(L to R) Joel Peter Witkin, Jerome Witkin & Jack Rutberg
Special Guest Q&A
with JACK RUTBERG
Following the screening, we are delighted to welcome Jack Rutberg for an exclusive conversation. One of America's most respected gallerists, curators and art dealers, Rutberg is the visionary who reunited estranged identical twin brothers Jerome and Joel-Peter Witkin, after more than fifty years leading to the landmark exhibition Twin Visions that inspired this extraordinary film.
A longtime friend and collaborator of THE LAB MAG, Jack has spent decades championing some of the most important artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His firsthand account of bringing these remarkable brothers back together offers rare insight into the making of this historical moment, as well as a fascinating exploration of these two formidable artists.
This promises to be a truly exceptional conversation, one that will reach far beyond the film itself.
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