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The Bruce High Quality Foundation

4 Sep 2010 – 16 Oct 2010

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OPENING, Saturday, September 04, 2010 at 6pm

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DUVE Berlin

Berlin, Germany

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L'eau de Vie, Un Film de Jean-Luc Godard

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DUVE Berlin is pleased to present the European premiere of *L'eau de Vie, Un Film de Jean-Luc Godard*, The Bruce High Quality Foundation's landmark 2006 film. Accompanying the film the exhibition will feature never-before-seen photographs from the making of, production stills, and original film props. About the Film: Shot entirely on sound-synched black and white super 8, "L'eau de Vie, un Film de Jean-Luc Godard" is a period piece set somewhere between May 68' and contemporary gentrified Miami. This film is a fake-scathing Marxist critique mocking the contemporary commercial art world and the notion of artistic revolution. Shot on location in Miami, Florida during the 2005 Art Basel tradeshow, "L'eau De Vie" is the story of one woman (Aurora Pellizzi) and an international art fair. A bellicose actor (Karim El-Tanamli), hot on the trail of a painting he has never seen, brings his arm-candy girlfriend Aurora along for a weekend trip to Art Basel Miami. While the actor and a bumbling art consultant (Nelson Figallo) pursue the elusive painting "L'eau De Vie", Aurora meets a homegrown revolutionary (Tonatiuh Pellizzi) determined to provoke a local uprising against the flood of cultural tourists. Aurora also meets a disenchanted French artist (Jeanne Detallante) showing at the fair in the midst of an existential crisis over her own relationship to the art world. Caught in the middle of this maelstrom, Aurora erupts in violence. Meanwhile, camera-wielding Native American terrorists battle literary and filmic allusions against a tropical skyline filled with hurricane rubble and condominium development, art tourism and home-grown radicality. BHQF Mission Statement: The Bruce High Quality Foundation, the official arbiter of the estate of Bruce High Quality, is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of the late social sculptor, Bruce High Quality. In the spirit of the life and work of Bruce High Quality, we aspire to invest the experience of public space with wonder, to resurrect art history from the bowels of despair, and to impregnate the institutions of art with the joy of man's desiring. Professional Challenges. Amateur Solutions. The Bruce High Foundation was founded September 11th, 2001 in New York City. Recent exhibitions include The Whitney Biennial 2010; The Brucennial 2010: Miseducation; Greater New York at MoMA PS1, NYC; 1969 at MoMA PS1, NYC; and Dreamlands at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich will present The Retrospective: 2001-2010 in October. This is the Foundation's second exhibition with DUVE Berlin.

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