One Mile Gallery
March 23, 6-9pm
Mark Hogancamp
Artist reception for ongoing Mark Hogancamp exhibit at One Mile Gallery from 6pm-9pm March 23, 2019
Mark Hogancamp brings his work back to Kingston for an extended show at One Mile Gallery through May. We are open SATURDAYS ONLY during this off-season exhibit from February 16 to May 25. Hogancamp is a photographer and storyteller, but prefers to think of himself as a film director. He’s the creator of Marwencol, a 1/6 scale, WWII-era Belgian village in which he stages and photographs a complex narrative of Nazi intrigue, lesbian melodrama, and Sgt. Rock-style heroics.
On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside of a bar by five men who beat him nearly to death. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Hogancamp was discharged with brain damage that left him little memory of his previous life. Unable to afford therapy, Hogancamp created his own by building a 1/6-scale World War II-era Belgian town called Marwencol in his yard and populating it with dolls representing himself, his friends, and his attackers. In the ensuing years, Hogancamp has rehabilitated his physical wounds by building from scratch the town’s structures and meticulously customizing the small dolls and props; he has come to terms with his psychological ones by involving these figures in elaborate and often violent narratives related to his attack and recovery. Hogancamp’s photographs of the town debuted in ESOPUS 5 in 2005; he was the subject of ESOPUS subscriber Jeff Malmberg’s critically acclaimed documentary Marwencol in 2010. In 2013, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away) announced that he would direct a feature film based on Hogancamp’s life and work from a script written by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands) starring Steve Carell as Mark. The film,Welcome to Marwen, was released December 21, 2018.
Mark Hogancamp brings his work back to Kingston for an extended show at One Mile Gallery through May. We are open SATURDAYS ONLY during this off-season exhibit from February 16 to May 25. Hogancamp is a photographer and storyteller, but prefers to think of himself as a film director. He’s the creator of Marwencol, a 1/6 scale, WWII-era Belgian village in which he stages and photographs a complex narrative of Nazi intrigue, lesbian melodrama, and Sgt. Rock-style heroics.
On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked outside of a bar by five men who beat him nearly to death. After nine days in a coma and 40 days in the hospital, Hogancamp was discharged with brain damage that left him little memory of his previous life. Unable to afford therapy, Hogancamp created his own by building a 1/6-scale World War II-era Belgian town called Marwencol in his yard and populating it with dolls representing himself, his friends, and his attackers. In the ensuing years, Hogancamp has rehabilitated his physical wounds by building from scratch the town’s structures and meticulously customizing the small dolls and props; he has come to terms with his psychological ones by involving these figures in elaborate and often violent narratives related to his attack and recovery. Hogancamp’s photographs of the town debuted in ESOPUS 5 in 2005; he was the subject of ESOPUS subscriber Jeff Malmberg’s critically acclaimed documentary Marwencol in 2010. In 2013, filmmaker Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away) announced that he would direct a feature film based on Hogancamp’s life and work from a script written by Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands) starring Steve Carell as Mark. The film,Welcome to Marwen, was released December 21, 2018.
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Welcome to Marwen DVD and Blu-ray release date is set for April 9, 2019 and available on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on March 26, 2019
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Auction April 5, 2019
Sotheby’s auction on 5 April 2019 will be led by exceptional rare photographs by El Lissitzky, Margaret Bourke-White, Imogen Cunningham, August Sander, Mark Hogancamp and Ansel Adams. This sale will feature a broad selection of photographs covering the full history of the medium, from early American daguerreotypes to large-scale Contemporary works by the most innovative artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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