Greenwich Entertainment Acquires U.S. Rights To ‘Robert Irwin: A Desert Of Pure Feeling’ About Leading American Artist; Sets October Release Date

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EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling, Jennifer Lane’s documentary about the legendary installation artist Robert Irwin, who has been called “one of the most pivotal figures in recent American art.” Greenwich plans to release the film simultaneously in select theaters and on VOD on October 20.

Robert Irwin: A Desert of Pure Feeling premiered at DOC NYC last fall and went on to screen at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Irwin’s “decade-spanning career has profoundly influenced generations of artists and is best known for his landscape work at LA’s Getty Center and his dazzling experiential installation in Marfa, Texas,” notes a release about the film. “New interviews with the artist and his colleagues are supplemented by archival materials, including photographs and archival recordings, as well as new, immersive footage of Irwin’s artworks.” “It’s exciting to partner with Greenwich Entertainment on the release of the film and introduce audiences to Robert Irwin’s groundbreaking work,” Lane and producer David Hollander said in a joint statement.

Greenwich co-president Edward Arentz said, “Jennifer achieves something very rare: to allow viewers to understand the creative and philosophical evolution of an artist while conveying the subtlety and majesty of their work.” The Pace Gallery, which represents the artist, says “Irwin’s interventions blur the distinctions between space and artwork, exploring the nature of light, volume, and perceptual psychology… Irwin employs a wide range of media, from fluorescent lights to fabric scrims, colored and tinted gels, paint, wire, acrylic, and glass.