Gus Van Sant, filmmaker and painter, exhibits his watercolors in New York

Nine of the most recent paintings by the director of Elephant, My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting have been on view since a few days and until November 1st at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in the Greenwich Village district - his first solo exhibition in New York.

These watercolors on linen of more than 2 meters high are almost all untitled, with the “main character” being the sketch of a naked man, who seems to float in the middle of a dreamlike landscape made of waves of cars, colors that intertwine, with sometimes in the distance a recognizable monument of Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory.

For this first solo exhibition in New York, Gus Van Sant, who has lived in Los Angeles since the end of the 1970s, was inspired by many “years spent living not far from Hollywood Boulevard,” he explained in an email to AFP.

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