Let Me Introduce Myself is the Miami debut of seminal artist, filmmaker, and poet Jonas Mekas. This exhibition brings together three series of images as well as a four-channel film work, all attesting to Mekas’ lasting conversation with American popular culture and ideology.
Jonas Mekas was born in Lithuania (1922) He lives and works in New York. After being imprisoned by the Nazis in a forced-labor camp, Mekas studied philosophy at the University of Mainz, and immigrated to the United States in 1949. Since the mid-1950s, he has remained at the forefront of the American avant-garde and alternative cinema, working alongside friends like Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, and Kenneth Anger, and influencing subsequent generations of filmmakers and artists. In 1964, he founded the Filmmakers Cinematheque, which grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest collections of avant-garde film.
Opening Reception
Mar 24, 2016, 6 PM
Gallery Diet
174 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.571.2288
www.gallerydiet.com
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