John Bock : Hell’s Bells: A Western

1 Mar-13 Apr 2017

Overview

John Bock’s fourth exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ centres on a new film, Hell’s Bell’s. Starring leading German actors including Lars Eidinger, Bibiana Beglau, Frank Seppeler and Laurenz Leky, the feature-length work ransforms the genre of the Western into a melodramatic and meandering story populated by allegorical characters. Hell’s Bells is being screened alongside an extensive group of sculptures and collages relating to characters and episodes in the film. These translate the film’s props, objects and sets into a cast of sculptural ‘characters’ akin to the human agents.