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I now have DVDs of my multi-award-winning Art Safari series for sale - series 1 (Cattelan, Schneider, Barney, Relational), and series 2 (Delvoye, Calle, Murakami, Sierra). Recommended Retail Price £19.99 - but available from my website for only £14.99 each, or the equivalent in any currency you choose, plus £3.00 postage and packing. Please note these DVDs are PAL Region 2. Payment is via paypal. You can transfer money from your email account and I accept all major credit cards too now.

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The multi-award-winning international series on contemporary art by Madcap art geek and award-winning documentary-maker, Ben Lewis.
Series 1
MAURIZIO CATTELAN is the court jester of the art world and the cartoonist of conceptualism. Cattelan refuses to meet Ben, so Ben brings Cattelans sculptures to life and sends them on missions to put questions to the artist and his doubles.
GREGOR SCHNEIDER has been transforming his childhood home into an artistic house of horrors since he was 16. Ben is convinced that Schneiders art indicates a terrible childhood trauma, but the artist would rather talk about formal theories.
MATTHEW BARNEY makes art on a Hollywood scale with videos, sculptures, photographs and Vaseline. His Cremaster Cycle is the art world’s answer to Star Wars, only with meanings that are much more obscure…
RELATIONAL ART - is it a new Ism? Ben investigates the theories of the French curator Nicholas Bourriaud. He says there’s a new movement in art - relational aesthetics.
Comes with a 12-page Bonus Booklet, with essays on each artist/episode by Ben Lewis DVD Aspect ratio 16:9 Stereo Duration 4 x 30 min Language: English. Release Date: 2009 © 2003
Series 2
Following the runaway success of the multi-award-winning first BBC4 series of ‘Art Safari’, documentary-maker Ben Lewis, returns with another survey of the world’s most interesting, imaginative, intelligent and insane contemporary artists.
WIM DELVOYE is the world’s rudest artist. Cloaca is a work of art and a machine which reproduces the human digestive system. You put food in one end and faeces comes out the other. But is this s**t for real?
SOPHIE CALLE is the Grand Dame of French contemporary art. Her art often involves following a set of rules or executing a task devised by someone else. She wants Ben to come up with an artistic idea for her to do…
TAKASHI MURAKAMI is Japan’s most successful contemporary artist. He makes super-sized cartoons and toys inspired by Japanese Manga comics. His art may look superficial and commercialised, but behind it lies a theory about the history of postwar Japan.
SANTIAGO SIERRA is Spain’s anti-capitalist artist and one of the world’s most radical artists. Ben travels with him to the heavily militarised border between North and South Korea, and then to globalisation hub of Dubai. but there’s friction between artist and TV presenter…
Comes with a 12-page Bonus Booklet, with essays on each artist/episode by Ben Lewis DVD Aspect ratio 16:9 Stereo Duration 4 x 30 min Language: English Release Date: 2009 © 2005
“Fresh and informative… One of the funniest 30 minutes of TV this week” The Guardian
“Lewis is cleverer than he at first appears..” Prospect
“The Louis Theroux of the art world.” Sunday Times