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           The Art of Passion

         

     Trouvailles 

     By 

    Eckhart Schmidt

The "Art of Passion" is a passionate Trip to the world of Glamour, Beauty and Femininity.


The images celebrate the woman of today – while featuring critical undertones.


It´s like dancing on a volcano or along the San Andreas Fault.


You enjoy the ride, but you know the glam-games can be over any second.

Coming to a gallery on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood.

April 15-29, 2011

The gallery will be named on the invitation

Who´s afraid of Eckhart Schmidt?

The Filmmaker

He shot one of the most controversial international cult films („Der Fan“ aka „Trance“) and most recently completed an experimental film entitled “Hollywood Fling”.

“Daily Variety” executive editor Steven Gaydos calls this film: “Disturbing. Radical. Provocative. Innovative.”

The Documentarian

Eckhart’s long list of documentaries includes the Myth of Hollywood, Jerry Lewis, Jane Russell, Las Vegas and  Sunset Boulevard –over 60 full length works for German television in total. CalArts media historian Norman Klein on those films: “No one else has filmed  a more complete  30-year-history of LA and Hollywood.” Currently Schmidt is completing two projects, a doc called “Hollywood Scandals” and a film about “Baby Doll”-Star Carroll Baker.

The Photographer

He is a successful photographer of Los Angeles topics shooting photographic cycles called Window Girls, Mulholland Drive – Opening Scenes, Dreaming LA, LA Africa, Stranded Downtown LA and Hollywoodland.  His photos were shown in more than 20 exhibits in Germany and Los Angeles.

The Painter

In his painting, as in his films and in his work as a photographer he is celebrating women, glamour and the world of dreams with sometimes critical undertones. With his multi-faceted creative activity Eckhart Schmidt reminds of Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel or David Lynch.

Eckhart Schmidt: “My starting point are things that I see and feel, that I want to express sometimes on film, sometimes in a doc, sometimes in photography and sometimes in a painting. Every media has its own rules, its own forms of expression, challenges and possibilities. What I photograph I cannot film and what I paint I cannot film or photograph. I´m happy to show my paintings for the first times in Los Angeles – the city that  I have loved for more than 30 years. For me it´s the most beautiful, exiting and inspiring city in the world.”