ArtReview Bar hosts screening of Gernot Wieland's film Thievery and Songs celebrating Summer issue

A special screening of Gernot Wieland's 2016 short film Thievery and Songs will take place at the ArtReview Bar on Wednesday 25 July. The event celebrates the Summer issue of ArtReview, which features Wieland as cover artist. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. with the screening starting at 7 p.m. The twenty-minute film weaves together German folklore, critiques of contemporary capitalism, Austrian history, childhood Catholicism, psychotherapy, and the artist dressed as a dog. Mark Rappolt describes Wieland's work as juxtaposing fact and fiction, horror and humor, profundity and bathos in humanity's search for place. The film takes The Town Musicians of Bremen folk tale as its starting point. Drinks will be available at the cash-only bar before and after the screening. Copies of the current ArtReview issue will be available for purchase. The issue also includes Martin Herbert on Bruce Nauman, Chloe Aridjis on Mexican art's macabre elements, Luc Tuymans on Baroque art, Aaron Angell on the London Museum's fatberg exhibition, Susan Cianciolo in conversation with Ross Simonini, and Christian Viveros-Fauné on monstrous art. The event is free to attend with RSVP requested to rsvp@artreview.com. The ArtReview Bar is located at 1 Honduras Street, EC1Y 0TH.