Paris vs. Larry Clark

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Paris vs. Larry Clark

Teens forbidden to look at myself

Paris City Hall has banned anyone under 18 to attend an exhibition of American photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark on the most controversial topics in the life of youth - sex, drugs and violence. From a legal perspective the decision of city authorities are absolutely justified, but the artist himself and his supporters wonder: it turns out that the Museum of Modern Art Young people have no right to look at something with which they regularly encounter in their daily lives.

The general public, Larry Clark is known primarily as a director scandalous film "Kids" (Kids), released in theaters in 1995. In the late 90's video for "Baby" under the desk passed each other the most advanced (including Russia), high school students. Heroes movie - New York teenagers - actively using alcohol and drugs, and then engaged in indiscriminate unprotected sex. As a consequence, suffer from a "plague of the twentieth century" - acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

As a photographer Clark became famous even before the release in 1971, a series of photographs, "Tulsa" (Tulsa). In photos youth from Tulsa, Okla. (Larry's hometown), having sex, using drugs and playing with guns. The pictures were taken by Clark from 1963 to 1971, and the photographer emphasizes the fact that he made these pictures are not from the standpoint of an observer, but as one of the actors. At age 16, Clark began taking amphetamines together with their peers. "Once ukolovshis, pull out the needle is already impossible," - wrote to Clark in a brief foreword to the book.

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That picture from the series "Tulsa" form the basis of the exposition, which opened on 8 October at the Paris Museum of Modern Art. In addition, there includes works from the collection "Teenage Lust" (Teenage Lust), "Perfect Childhood" (The Perfect Childhood) and "pankPikasso" (punkPicasso). Their content is generally couched in characteristic style of Clark's not-quite-socialist realism.

Larry Clark exhibition opened in Paris on October 8. However, before opening it sparked heated debate in the society, after the authorities decided that the organizers could be accused of promoting pornography and pedophilia. To avoid the possible unpleasant consequences, the municipality of Paris strongly recommended Museum of Modern Art set an age limit on entry. Given that this measure for the Paris Musee d'art moderne is almost unprecedented.

In protest against zashorivaniya youth known for its liberal views of the newspaper "Liberation" came on the eve of the opening of the exhibition with the band topical editorial. The first page is placed a large photo of the authorship of Larry Clark, in which two young men engaged in petting. Or something like that - clearly shows that she squeezes in a fist penis partner.

Not rusted, and for himself Clark - in an interview with French media, he bowed in all keys mayors: "The ban - Attack of the older generation of youth. They seem to tell teens: 'Go to your room and see all this garbage on the internet. We do not want you to come to the museum and looking at works of art dedicated to you and what is happening around you,''.

As one of his main arguments of opponents of the ban (which he joined a number of artists and human rights) lead that same work of Larry Clark has repeatedly demonstrated in Europe. Director of the Museum of Modern Art Ehrgott, Fabrice (Fabrice Hergott) explained the current prohibition on "change of epoch". According to him, in the minds of the people and the law, much has changed since 1992, when Larry Clark freely exhibited in the French capital. While on the show, according to eyewitnesses, were represented by no less bold photographs than the present one. "And we have not had any problems," - says who worked there Brar Joel (Joel Brard).

However, the problems were the organizers of the exhibition later in Bordeaux in 2000. Trials for the exhibition "presumed to be innocent" (Presumes innocents) lasted almost ten years. Organizers were accused of distributing images of minors, wearing a pornographic nature. Indeed, since 1992 France had taken a large number of new laws to protect children who have toughened penalties for potential manifestations of pedophilia.

Christophe Girard (Christophe Girard), in charge at the City Hall of Paris cultural issues, said the age limit be correct. "This is the best solution in this situation because it conflicted exhibition is obvious," - said Girard. This was confirmed by the Mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe (Bertrand Delanoe). Commenting on his own decision, he said that he acted primarily in the interests of the Museum of Modern Art and the exhibition organizers. According to Delanoe, the publication of photos of Clark, without any restrictions could result in administrative action against the museum and prosecute the organizers. "Most likely, this exhibition would have closed for the dissemination of materials that could harm minors" - said the mayor.

In addition, the authorities insist that the most provocative photos of Clark, presented in Paris now, not previously exhibited at all. Delanoe said that even the New York museum, which owns a series of "Teenage Lust," never exhibited it in public as a whole. "Each of us can have their own ideas of views on human sexuality, but Paris is not going in this respect, rise above the law", - concluded the mayor.

Alexey Ponomarev

http://www.lenta.ru/articles/2010/10/12/paris/

Official site of Larry Clark

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«Lawrence Donald Clark American film director, photographer, writer and producer, known primarily film Kids. The main themes of his work - young people, and that it is peculiar - drug use, sex, violence, basically the youth, who is part of a subculture (eg punk or skateboarding).


Born in Tulsa, Okla., in 1943. Clark soon became acquainted with photography. His mother was a children's photographer, and the age of 13 he has already participated in the filming. At 16, he and his friends began to use amphetamines. He always carried a camera, so that by 19 he had selected a series of photographs about the life of American teen-amfetaminschikov. These pictures were later published in the album, named in honor of his native city, Tulsa, oslezhivayut trajectory of three young men who pass from idealism and ecstasy to trauma and paranoia.


In subsequent work Clark has continued to study and fix the problems faced by male adolescents: in Teenage Lust (1983), it creates a chronicle of the next generation of young people from Tulsa and Young Hustler in Times Square, in The Perfect Childhood (1992), he paints the world " tabloid "teenagers, juvenile offenders and models, and photographs in the series" Skaters "(1992-95) and the film Kids (1995), he explores the community of skateboarders in New York. In all these studies, Clark holds a set of interrelated themes: the destructiveness of dysfunctional family relationships, masculinity and the origins of violence, search for identity in adolescence.

To address these issues, Clark often uses sexual images and explicit scenes of drug use and violence, actions that will automatically make his characters, but are often shocked by the audience. These works are at once unimaginable and unforgettable.

Larry Clark is often seen as one of the most important and influential American photographers of his generation "

Larry Clark

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Swiss exhibition with the participation of Larry Clark censored

Exhibition "vice and pleasure", organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, censored, according to Le Matin.
Exposure were excluded from the two photographs of the American filmmaker Larry Clark, and watercolor by German artist Georg Gross. Decided to withdraw the three works was taken over by the museum in just two days before the opening of the exposition. (The exhibition "Eastern Promises, and fun will be available to the public from October 15, 2010 to February 20, 2011.)

In management's opinion, the three papers mentioned above are too provocative. In particular, a photograph by Larry Clark depicts a young man with a gun forcing the girl to oral sex. With this guide the museum recognizes that the works have a certain artistic value.

We note that Clark received wide acclaim in 1995 after the release of his film "Kids" (Kids). The painting was dedicated by New York teenagers - in the film they had taken alcohol and drugs, and sexual promiscuity.

From 8 October in Paris held an exhibition of photographs Clarke, dedicated to the life of teenagers. Leadership of the Museum of Modern Art, which exhibited works, has decided not to allow the exhibition of persons under 18 years, even though teenagers are the heroes of the images. We already know that the exhibition "Eastern Promises and pleasure in Bern will not be allowed visitors who have not attained the age of 16.

http://lenta.ru/news/2010/10/14/censure/