Sunday, 30 March 2014
Ex Futuro__David Harper
"Existing somewhere between a study of early experimental film and a Norwegian Black Metal music video is Ex-Futuro, a new work by the collaborating French brothers, Florian and Michaël Quistrebert. Though shot on a hand-held, point-and-shoot digital camera, the artists' use of non-digital source material—capturing and layering shadows and hand-cut and animated painted paper—lends an analog look. There is also a clear fascination with both occult symbology and early 20th-century Modernism. Visions of spinning skulls and lines that rotate to form pentagrams populate the piece, and many of the forms seem to reference both Constructivism and Art Deco sensibility. The result is a video that looks historical without feeling trite and wickedly goth without seeming puerile."
Florian & Michaël Quistrebert - Ex-Futuro, by David Harper, www.artfagcity.com
"Old-school with a vengeance, the 2010 video Ex-Futuro, by French brothers Florian and Michaël Quistrebert, mixes monochrome visions of pentagrams, pyramids, and disembodied eyes with interweaving beams of ethereal light. Like TV test patterns from the Great Beyond, the sinuous forms combine a noir palette with psychedelic undulations."
NineteenEightyFour at the Austrian Cultural Forum, by R.C. Baker, The Village Voice, June 8th 2010
'Dust' __Wu Chi-Tsung at Site Gallery
Taiwanese artist Wu Chi-Tsung returns to Site Gallery, bringing Dust to the UK for the first time. The ideas and techniques behind Dust were originally tested during Wu’s residency at Site Gallery in 2006, and the installation has since been shown at the Shanghai Biennial.
Wu Chi-Tsung uses everyday materials in elegant and inventive ways to create meditative, dream-like environments. Dust captures the shadows of minute, usually invisible dust particles, as they spiral around the audience to make a mesmerising abstract projection.
Crystal City 003, a newly-commissioned installation, invites the audience to witness a shifting cityscape. Filling the space with moving light and shadow, the installation draws playful parallels with the pace of urban development in Asia today.
Excerpt Taken From - http://www.sitegallery.org/archives/6296
― Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom
“In order to live a meaningful life,
humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These ‘answers’ do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words does not necessarily indicate a lack of understanding, but one has to able to place oneself in the world and build a relatively stable identity. The founding of such an identity is only possible if one can tell a relatively coherent story about who one has been and who one intends to be.”
― Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom
humans need answers, i.e., a certain understanding of basic existential questions. These ‘answers’ do not have to be made completely explicit, as a lack of words does not necessarily indicate a lack of understanding, but one has to able to place oneself in the world and build a relatively stable identity. The founding of such an identity is only possible if one can tell a relatively coherent story about who one has been and who one intends to be.”
― Lars Fr. H. Svendsen, A Philosophy of Boredom
Boredom__
0.6 pen drawing inspired by the Lars Svendsen - The Philosophy of Boredom
For anyone who has experienced boredom and questioned, why?
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