Sarah Morris

Sarah Morris

19.Sep.07 - 18.Oct.07
Tue-Sun 11-6,Thu until 9

Whitechapel Gallery
80-82 Whitechapel High St
London E1 7QX
020 7522 7888
info@whitechapel.org
www.whitechapel.org
Tube Aldgate East, Aldgate, Spitalfields / Brick Lane

The London premiere of American artist Sarah Morris’s sixth film, Robert Towne, is a portrait of the legendary Hollywood writer, director, producer and actor. Awarded an Oscar for his screenplay for Chinatown, he also wrote or advised on scripts for Shampoo, Bonnie and Clyde, The Parallax View and The Godfather. He couples the dazzling surfaces of modern America’s economic and cultural success, with the darkness of conspiracy and individual and corporate corruption.

Morris’s film is part of an ongoing series including a painted mural of intersecting lines and circles. Also titled Robert Towne it is installed in the Lever Building in Manhattan, a 1948 glass walled skyscraper that is an icon of corporate power. Since the mid 1990s Morris has gained renown for her panoramic portraits of American cities through abstract paintings and 35mm films.