Film Still, Rita Ackermann, ‘Listen to the Image’ 2024 ©️ Rita Ackermann. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth
Screening Room: Rita Ackermann's ‘Listen to the Image’
On the occasion of the exhibition 'Rita Ackermann. Splits’ at Hauser & Wirth 22nd Street and ‘Rita Ackermann. Splits: Printing | Painting’ at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street, we're thrilled to present Rita Ackermann’s new film ‘Listen to the Image’ in the amphitheater at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street.
‘Listen to the Image’ is a 59-minute montage film drawing from a collaged series of found media, film, sound, painting and recordings. The quote ‘listen to the image’ comes from the original trailer for Robert Bresson’s film ‘Mouchette’ and elicits an active viewership into Ackermann’s creative process and ideological approach.
The film will play on loop during gallery hours from Tuesday 28 May – Saturday 1 June. Start times are detailed below, and all screenings are free and open to the public.
Start Times
10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm, 5 pm
Listen to the Image, 2024
Silent Montage Film
59 min
By Rita Ackermann
Assistant Editor David Wirth
Footage Credits in Order of Appearance
Vivre Savie Puppet Show by Ria Ackermann, 1996, voice Kim Gordon
Painted stained glass of angels for 777 Club at Soccer Club, 2024, Chicago
Hail Mary by JL Godard, 1985, music JS Bach
5.55 am sundown and 5.55 pm sunset video, 2024 by Rita Ackermann
Written quote by Victor Hugo
Michael Jackson Bad 25 by Spike Lee
Robert Bresson interview, 1983, YouTube
Bresson (on Cinema), YouTube
Michael Jackson This Is It (Rehearsals), 2010, YouTube
JL Godard on Dick Cavett, 1980, YouTube
Hail Mary by JL Godard, 1986
Lancelot of the Lake by Robert Bresson, 1974
Hands on Bresson, YouTube
Charlie Chaplin Moonwalk, YouTube
Michael Jackson Moonwalk, YouTube
Trailor by JL Godard for Mouchette, 1967
Animation by Rita Ackermann, 1995, for Visual Mafia MTV
Mouchette by Robert Bresson, 1967, Monterverdi
The Silent World by Jaques Cousteau, 1956
‘Image and sound, they are just tools. Sometimes, as I say, even if it looks like a paradox, you have to listen to the image and look at the sound to use it in the music or in the painting.’—JL Godard
About 'Splits’ and ‘Splits: Printing | Painting’
Hauser & Wirth presents Rita Ackermann’s latest series of paintings and prints in simultaneous exhibitions spanning the gallery’s two West Chelsea locations. At 542 West 22nd Street, the artist debuts a suite of new canvases expanding upon the techniques, themes and imagery she has explored over the course of her career since the early 1990s, while at 443 West 18th Street she unveils a series of complex large-scale silkscreens. Heralding a significant leap in her artistic practice, these prints represent a dramatic convergence of the technical processes of printmaking with Ackermann’s sustained exploration of form, movement and erasure.
About Rita Ackermann
Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1968, Rita Ackermann currently lives and works in New York.
Ackermann’s recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Hidden,’ MASI Lugano, Switzerland (2023); ‘Vertical Vanish,’ Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles (2023); ‘Mama ‘19,’ Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street (2020); ‘Brother Sister,’ Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland (2019); ‘Movements as Monuments,’ La Triennale di Milano, Italy (2018); ‘Turning Air Blue,’ Hauser & Wirth Somerset, England (2017); ‘KLINE RAPE,’ Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street (2016); ‘The Aesthetic of Disappearance,’ Malmö Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden (2016); ‘Chalkboard Paintings,’ Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland (2015); ‘MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE-HAIR WASH,’ Sammlung Friedrichshof, Burgenland, Austria and Sammlung Friedrichshof Stadtraum, Vienna, Austria (2014); ‘Negative Muscle,’ Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street (2013); ‘Fire by Days,’ Hauser & Wirth London, Piccadilly (2012); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami FL (2012); ‘Bakos,’ Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (2011); and ‘Rita Ackermann and Harmony Korine: ShadowFux,’ Swiss Institute, New York NY (2010).
