Artist and designer Bas van Beek is concerned with ideas about visual art, architecture and design. For the Inter-Cross-Hybrid-Collab project, he investigates parallels between the developments of Hollywood film and design and the visual arts. How can art express the taste and socio-economic status of protagonists in a film?

At the invitation of the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, Van Beek is working on a TV or film project in which the museum's extensive art deco collection will play a central role. In order to gain more insight into the common ground of the artist, the designer, the museum collection and the film industry, he examines artists and designers who previously sought such an integrated approach. For example, Salvador Dalí designed a set for Hitchcock's Spellbound. Van Beek focuses mainly on the film industry of the XNUMXs, a period in which art deco architecture, film, interior design and theater formed a Gesamtkunstwerk.