Welcome 2008 with Chuck Close

Or at least the new documentary about him, now playing at Film Forum in New York City through January 8th. Directed and produced by the late independent filmmaker Marion Cajori, Chuck Close traces the artist’s evolution, surveys his influences and peers, and follows the 82-day creation of a self-portrait (at right) that is now in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. Along the way, the viewer gets to know a warm, articulate, serene, and joyful individual who just happens to have reinvented the art of portraiture.

“There’s a nauseating amount of me in the film, I think, but at least it’s mitigated by the fact that there are all these other mini-portraits of other artists and friends and my family, and I think that’s what makes the film so interesting,” said Close when we chatted with him just before Christmas.

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