August 2016

Waxworks

Every year, Villa Aurora awards a Berlin Fellowship to an artist from Los Angeles. We, once again, partnered up with Galerie Weiss Berlin, whose main focus is the presentation of current American art. Previous exhibition partners included the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik ZK/U and Residenz Torstraße 111.

Rosha Yaghmai lives and works in Los Angeles. In 2007, she graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a MFA and became a fellow at Terra Foundation in 2009. Her upcoming solo projects will take place at Weiss Berlin, at Kleopatra in New York among other venues. Furthermore she will contribute to the exhibition Knowledge at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles. Her works have been exhibited in various show rooms, such as Public Fiction in Los Angeles, Commonwealth & Council in Los Angeles, GBK in Sydney, Kayne Griffin Corcoran and Thomas Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles, the Riverside Art Museum, LACE, LAX><ART, Estacion Tijuana, and Transmission Gallery in Glasgow.

HEAT – A Summer Show

Following a series of successful exhibitions in 2013 and 2014 in Los Angeles, Gildas Coudrais presents works in his first solo show in Berlin. The “HEAT” is curated by art historian Katharina Schulenberg-Leduc and supported by Villa Aurora. The title both reflects Coudrais’ artistic modus operandi and shows his intention to debunk and caricature society’s superficiality. He pursues questions such as: “What is the relationship between content and appearance?” “What is the proportionality of word and image?” And: “In which way does the art embrace the viewer?

Curator: Katharina Schulenberg-Leduc
Supported by Villa Aurora
Opening: Thursday, July 28 6:00 p.m. to 9 p.m.

4 Nights of Picnic & Silent Film with Live Organ

Saturday, August 6 @ 8:15 p.m.

Southern California Premiere of the Restored Copy!!
A Woman of the World (1925, 104 min.) stars Pola Negri in a comedy about a worldly European Countess who comes to visit her American cousin to find culture shock at every turn. Today, Negri is associated with playing the classic “vamp” character, but here she shows she could also be a delightful comedienne. Directed by Mal St. Clair, this film has just been restored by Paramount and will have its preservation premiere at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in June. This screening will be the first in Southern California.

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4 Nights of Picnic & Silent Film with Live Organ

Saturday, August 27 @ 8:15 p.m.

Show People (1928, 79 min.) stars Marion Davies as a young woman who comes to Hollywood to be a star and of course, hijinks ensue. Directed by King Vidor and co-starring William Haines, this farce turns the lens on Los Angeles and filmmaking in the silent era. Davies was often underrated because her stardom was assumed to have been the result of her relationship with William Randolph Hearst, but her comedic timing and talent shine in Show People.

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