Image courtesy of the Artist, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles Photography: Max Slaven

microcinema at the 37th Cambridge Film Festival

Thu 19 October 2017 - Mon 23 October 2017

The Heong Gallery

As part of microcinema at the 37th Cambridge Film Festival, an installation of a new photo and film work by William E. Jones will be shown at the Heong Gallery from 19 – 23 October. Entitled Fall into Ruin (2017), the work tells the story of the artist’s relationship with Alexander Iolas, the Greek art dealer and collector who at the height of his career owned galleries in New York, Paris, Milan, Geneva, Madrid and Athens. Known for his association with the Surrealists, Iolas gave Andy Warhol his first solo exhibition in 1952, and helped to form the collection of the great arts patrons John and Dominique de Menil before retiring to Athens in the 1980s.

Following his death in 1987 from AIDS, Iolas’s property in Athens was looted. His collection, which included artifacts and art from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt, as well as pieces by the artists Iolas worked with, including Max Ernst, Rene? Magritte, and Man Ray amongst many others, vanished. The empty house was completely vandalised and today stands as a modern ruin. Fall into Ruin sees Jones return to the sites he first visited at the age of 19 and revisit the story of Alexander Iolas through views of the villa in its current ruined state, shots of contemporary Athens and antiquities on display at the National Archaeological Museum, as well as the original photographs Jones took of Villa Iolas in 1982, exhibited alongside the film.

Cost: Free