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Book Signing

Walton Ford
Pancha Tantra

Saturday, August 27, 2022, 3pm
Taschen Store, East Hampton, New York
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Walton Ford will sign copies of the updated edition of his book Pancha Tantra (2020). The most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date, the expanded publication features forty new works, more than 120 additional pages, and a new essay by the artist. These appear alongside a text by Bill Buford, excerpts from Ford’s textual inspirations—including Indian folktales, the letters of Benjamin Franklin, and The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini—and a complete biography of the artist. The event is free and open to the public.

Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra (New York: Taschen, 2020)

Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra (New York: Taschen, 2020)

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A Bubble in the Lake

In this video produced by the Louisiana Channel for the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark, Walton Ford talks about his challenging childhood and upbringing, his early appreciation of nature, and his endless love of large watercolors. Ford was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in June 2023 in the artist’s studios in New York City and Berkshire County, Massachusetts.

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Screening

Walton Ford Selects

November 17–22, 2023
Metrograph, New York
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Walton Ford has curated a selection of films as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The program features five films that explore extreme psychological states in their storylines and use pioneering and sometimes unconventional acting and cinematographic techniques to achieve the result. Ford explains, “These films dive deep into characters in ways that are sometimes harrowing and always completely surprising. None of these films are cliché or pat, and all share an unorthodox style or method. As a narrative painter, I seek to explore subjects and tell stories in this way.”

Featured films include
At Land (1944, directed by Maya Deren)
Heat Lightning (1934, directed by Mervyn LeRoy)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, directed by Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenschmied)
Naked (1993, directed by Mike Leigh)
The Sword of Doom (1966, directed by Kihachi Okamoto)

Still from The Sword of Doom (1966), directed by Kihachi Okamoto

Still from Heat Lightning (1934), directed by Mervyn LeRoy

Screening and Talk

Walton Ford
Waris Ahluwalia

Friday, November 17, 2023, 8pm
Metrograph, New York
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Join Walton Ford and designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia for a conversation and screening on the occasion of Walton Ford Selects, a film program curated by the artist as part of a series copresented by Gagosian and Metrograph. The pair will discuss how the selected films share an unorthodox style or method and delve into characters in ways that are sometimes harrowing and always surprising. After the talk, a trio of films—Heat Lightning (1934), Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), and At Land (1944)—will be screened.

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