uick : name the only visual artist to ever win an oscar! It’s Pierre Bismuth, of course, the French Brain behind THE ETERNAL SUNHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND and creator of such films as “Quelques comédiens au milieu de quelques acteurs” (1997-1999). He has brought a brin of updated French situationism to Hollywood, along with a goût for conceptual narrative. He has scaled up new narrative tools for cinema, and put Hollywood in possession of raconteur’s dynamite, not to mention a new kind of psycho-geography. No wonder they gave this artist a refl ecting doll to play with. Will Pierre now go erring in La La Land? Has he outgrown galleries? Not if his recent book from onestar press is any indication (see article page 9 ). His artist’s book is a sort of conceptual koan to meditate on, about as far from Hollywood’s les paillettes dans les yeux as he could get. Maybe sometime Pierre will do a gigantic commercial topography of Hollywood, the way he did of Paris (“Sans titre,” in Châteauroux, 1992, 10m x 5m). That’s a map we sure would like to see.
Richard Dailey.

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