“Considering the subject matter, it makes sense there are a lot guys with beards here,” quipped a guest at a hip Soho art exhibition curated by director Darren Aronofsky as a companion piece to his movie “Noah,” which opens March 28.
Among the downtown crowd perusing works by 50 artists including Karen Kilimnik, Mike and Doug Starn, Ugo Rondinone and Spencer Tunick were Zosia Mamet, Jack Dorsey, David Blaine, Josh Lucas, Lucy Liu, Narciso Rodriguez, Scott Lipps and Helena Christensen.
“When I asked Russell Crowe to star in ‘Noah,’ I promised him one thing,” wrote Aronofsky in an introduction to the show, “Fountains of the Deep: Visions of Noah and the Flood.” “I would never shoot him standing on the bow of a houseboat with two giraffes sticking up behind him. That’s the image most people have in their heads and I didn’t want to give people the ‘Noah and the Ark’ that they were expecting . . . ‘Noah’ is one of humankind’s oldest stories, but I wanted it to feel fresh, immediate and real.”