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Taming Light is a group exhibition of new painting, photography and illustration paying tribute to one of the pre-eminent filmmakers of the 20th Century, Stanley Kubrick.

I work as a film critic and am a Kubrick devotee. I wanted to mark the tenth anniversary of Kubrick’s death in a way that didn’t involve sitting in the dark, watching the films again. I wanted to show how Kubrick’s images, and the eternal emotion behind them, remain a vibrant part of the visual landscape and act as a touchstone, inspiring a new generation of image-makers.

Stanley Kubrick was a great picture-maker – his images are eternal, but more than that, the concepts and emotions behind them endure. He was a filmmaker whose aim was to draw a map of the landscape of the human spirit – the soul and the imagination. Kubrick is more than just a consummate storyteller or technical genius; for the artists paying tribute in this exhibition, he stands as something greater; a genuine film artist; the master of composition, colour, movement and spectacle.

The exhibition is organised on a not-for-profit basis and admission is free. The work on show is not for sale through the exhibition or this website, but privately through the artists’ websites.

John Maguire, October 2009

Disclaimer:
Stanley Kubrick: Taming Light is a non-profit exhibition of new artwork, privately commissioned and curated by John Maguire. No affiliation with The Kubrick Estate, Hobby Films Ltd., Warner Bros. Studios, Turner Broadcasting or Time Warner Corporation (including their subsidiaries or licensees) is implied or should be inferred.