GIACOMETTI FILM SCREENING

Having recently joined the Tate one of the bonus's was that you get to go to members screenings that they put on. I managed to get tickets to a screening of the film about Giacometti entitles The Last Portrait directed by Stanley Tucci. I had previously been to see the exhibition as I love his work and the variety of it. The film was excellent and so was the Q&A afterwards with Tucci himself and Frances Morris who curated the Giacometti show that is currently on in the Tate Modern

Now I was not expecting to find too much inspiration as our practice is not very similar at all however the event proved to be a real revelation. The film deals with as well as the a few months in the latter years of his life the idea of the artist continually striving for perfection. It captured this perfectly and centred around Giacometti doing a portrait of an American friend of his. What was supposed to be an afternoons sitting for his friend dragged on for weeks as Giacometti could not achieve it. He got 90% of the way into the painting and then due to his insecurity, unhappiness with it and  a crisis of confidence at it not being "right"painted over it and was pretty much back to square one.

This was a revelation because it is something that I strive to do often crippled by the inability to achieve exactly what I want in my practice so not doing it at all. My issue has always been I do not practice my practice enough. Meaning I do not create enough work as the work i want to do has to be right. This creates dithering, excuses and due to fear of failure not much work at all. I can make excuses that my practice is harder than some as I need lots of crew and actors and collaborators to make it happen but this is just that excuses NOT reasons. I simply am not going to learn as fast unless I practice my practice more even if this means i have to endure the pain of the creative process!!!!

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/giacometti