MASTERS IN MOTION EXHIBIT REVERES PICASSO, MIRO, REMBRANDT, CHAGALL, RENOIR IN COLLECTIBLE PIECES AND RARE FILMS

Picasso, Miro, Rembrandt, Chagall and Renoir are the subjects of Masters in Motion -- a special multimedia art and film exhibit Friday, May 30 through Sunday, June 1at Bal Harbour Gallery, 9700 Collins Avenue in the Bal Harbour Shops. The exhibit, film screenings and sale of 47 museum-quality works of art by the masters is considered a rare opportunity to own some very collectible -- and valuable -- works of art.

The Bal Harbour Gallery event marks the premier of Masters in Motion, which will then tour as a road show to Portland, Cincinatti, Dallas, St. Louis and Kansas City. The Miami premier includes two open-to-the-public receptions at Bal Harbour Gallery -- Friday, May 30 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and on Saturday, May 31 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The exhibit will also be open to the public on Sunday, June 1 from Noon to 5:00 p.m. as part of a philanthropic fundraiser to benefit the Miami Rescue Mission. A portion of sales proceeds from the Sunday exhibit will go directly to the Miami Rescue Mission, which has provided food, clothing and shelter to the needy in South Florida since 1922.
The exhibit includes a symposium by curators on the art history of the pieces and the lives of the artists that created them.

ABOUT THE FILMS:

Picasso - Romancero du Picador (1968) Directed by Jean Desvilles, black & white, 13 minutes.
Depicts the role of the picador in the Spanish bullfight as interpreted by Picasso in his pen and wash drawings. This classic film directly pertains to the Le Picador lithograph in Masters in Motion.

Joan Miro: Constellations--The Color of Poetry; 52 minutes.
A retrospective filmed at the Miro Museum in Barcelona, this video offers a unique insight into the visual world of Miro, which fuses passion, sexuality, philosophy and flights of fancy into an ecstatic carnival of symbols. With historic newsreel footage, a tour of Miro's studio and a performance by the La Claca Theater in Miro-designed costumes.

Rembrandt's Christ, directed by Anthony Roland; black & white; 40 minutes.
More penetrating and demanding than a simple celebration of Rembrandt's drawings (though it is certainly that too), yet more imaginative and poetic than any formal study of the artist's graphic work, the film takes the form of a seamless sequence of images choreographed to the specially-composed music of Henry Barraud. The central theme is provided by Rembrandt's depictions of Christ, which have never before been gathered together in this way; 160 drawings from sixty-two collections in twelve countries were drawn upon for the film.

Chagall; 28 minutes, color.
The work of Marc Chagall is justly popular for his images of lovers, flowers, musicians and clowns. It also has another side: his response to the world outside the studio, to suffering, to war and a wide cultural heritage. This documentary of a major retrospective exhibition provides an opportunity to experience the full range of Chagall's art. It includes his mysterious student pictures from St Petersburg, poetic images from pre-war Paris and domestic scenes from further years in Russia.

Renoir; 20 minutes, color.
Renoir's greatest fame came from his association with the French Impressionist painters of the later nineteenth century. The Impressionists captured their immediate surroundings in richly colored, fluently sketched canvases often executed out of doors rather than in the studio. But Renoir's long career encompassed a wide range of styles and there is a world of difference between the ambitious subject pictures he painted in the 1860s and the glowing nudes that he produced in the final years before his death in 1919. This film explores the full range of Renoir's extraordinary talent through detailed photography and an illuminating script by John House, one of the selectors of the Renoir exhibition seen in London, Paris and Boston.

For additional information contact Bal Harbour Gallery at 305-864-5800.