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Solo Exhibition by New York-Based Artist Hugo Markl at Galerie Eva Presenhuber

ZURICH.- Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents, after two years, a new solo exhibition by New York-based artist Hugo Markl. The title of this exhibition goes as follows: “One day 1917, while his director was out sick with a hangover, John Ford made his first feature. VOICE OF JOHN FORD: They brought a lot of people out from the east. I mean, the opening of Universal City, Carl Laemmle had a lot of beauty contestants there. And we had a Western street and a bunch of cowboys. And Mr. Bernstein came riding up and he says: “You’re the first assistant, you gotta shoot something while he’s here. There’s a big bunch of people, over 100.” I said, “What will I do?” He says, “Do anything. You know, you let them ride back and forth.” So they rode through the streets shooting at everything, you know, for no reason at all. And I said to Mr. Bernstein, “And how was that?” And he says,