Paul Insect
On July 6, London's Somerset House opens "Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick," an exhibition exploring contemporary interpretations of the director's films. Here's a preview of what's on show.
Marc Quinn Studio
There's something of the savage nihilism of "A Clockwork Orange" in Marc Quinn's meditation on the London riots and social unrest, depicted nearly half a century on from Kubrick's film.
Polly Morgan
Polly Morgan used taxidermy for her sculpture, combining Alex's snake in "A Clockwork Orange" and the Brutalist architecture of his surroundings into a work with a violent sexual subtext.
Charlotte Colbert
The astronaut comes in many shapes and sizes in Charlotte Colbert's photos, captured to commemorate the fifteen anniversary of Kubrick's death.
Warner Bros. Pictures
Airbrush artist Philip Castle is best known for designing the iconic poster for "A Clockwork Orange," has loaned other works inspired by the film to Somerset House.
Paul Insect
David Pellam's famous Penguin book cover for Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" keeps its 1960s pop art feel despite Paul Insect inserting an altogether more modern subject.
Peter Kennard
Political collage artist Peter Kennard juxtaposes the war room in "Dr. Strangelove" with modern leaders still engaged in nuclear politics.
Gavin Turk/Andy Keate
The maze from the Overlook Hotel goes industrial with Gavin Turk's "The Shining," throwing mirrored surfaces into the mix to increase the sense of confusion and discomfort.
Doug Aitken/Brian Forrest
Doug Aitken gleefully replicates the public pay phone used in an attempt to avert nuclear war in "Dr. Strangelove," hemmed in with claustrophobic mirrored walls.
Mat Collishaw/ Blain Southern
Inspired by the journey from ape to spaceman in "2001: A Space Odyssey," Mat Collishaw links both the "Moongazer" at the film's start to protagonist Dr. David Bowman at its conclusion.
Iain Forsyth/Jane Pollard/Toby Farrow
One hundred and fourteen analog radios play requiems from Jarvis Cocker, Beth Orton and Rachel Goswell among others in an eerie chorus of "Dies Irae," a musical motif featured in "The Shining" and "A Clockwork Orange."

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A tribute to Stanley Kubrick's art, including installations, paintings and videos, has opened in London

The intense, immersive experience includes scores by Britpop frontman Jarvis Cocker and Detroit techno producer Carl Craig

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Stanley Kubrick’s greatest legacy might just be how many people he inspired. His films cannot help but elicit curiosity. The space for speculation, a hunt for meaning in the American auteur’s films, perhaps explain why he is such a draw for creatives today.

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Somerset House in London is happy to play host to the fruits of this process with “Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick,” which opened on July 6.

In the new exhibition, contributors – including Doug Aitkin, Marc Quinn, Samantha Morton and Norbert Schoerner – examine Kubrick’s oeuvre through installations, paintings and video.

Fittingly, curator, artist and UNKLE musician James Lavelle likens the five years he spent bringing together his ensemble cast to making a film.

Artists pay tribute

Among the highlights are Schoerner’s “Das Problem der Befahrung des Weltraums,” a virtual reality jump into the spinning interior of Discovery One, the ship from “2001: A Space Odyssey;” and light artist Chris Levine’s “Mr. Kubrick is Looking,” a haunting, fleeting portrait of the director.

Mat Collishaw/ Blain Southern
"A Ω" (2016) by Mat Collishaw, inspired by the journey from ape to spaceman in "2001: A Space Odyssey"

Kubrick’s signature one-point perspective abounds, even in the exhibition layout: a host of rooms are tied together with a long corridor featuring that carpet from “The Shining,” reimagined by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin.

Political collage artist Peter Kennard is at large with a dizzying anti-war installation drawing the line between “Dr. Strangelove” and the nuclear states that remain today.

Toby Dye, meanwhile, calls on actors Joana Lumley and Aidan Gillen in a walled, looping video room, “The Corridor,” recasting them as characters from four Kubrick films, including his opulent curtain-closer “Eyes Wide Shut.”

A poignant reminder

It’s an intense, immersive experience scored by everyone from Britpop frontman Jarvis Cocker to Detroit techno producer Carl Craig. But at the entrance, before the throbs and pulses, is a poignant reminder that above all the bravura, Kubrick was, to some, simply a devoted family man.

Christiane Kubrick, his widow and wife of 40 years, has contributed “Remembering Stanley,” a portrait from 1999, painting the director during a quiet moment in their garden in rural Hertfordshire.

Her endorsement of “Daydreaming” has been key to Lavelle and his project.

“Kubrick is my creative hero,” says Lavelle. “It’s been humbling to have Christiane’s blessing.”

“Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick,” in partnership with Canon, runs at Somerset House in London until August 24, 2016.