Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

project space SATELLIT Römerberg . D-Frankfurt (Main) (between Frankfurter Kunstverein and SCHIRN) Tue - Fri 2 p.m. - 7 p.m., Sat 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. and by arrangement In our videospace as well as our new project space SATELLIT in the center of Frankfurt we present videoworks of the Russian artist VICTOR ALIMPIEV in the exhibition "The wind doesn't blow over the parquet". In his videoworks VICTOR ALIMPIEV combines elements of diverse artistic genres like painting, theatre, dance and music in the moving image. The human "material" that seldom performs as individuals but mostly as a group of people in Alimpiev works, becomes a mouldable "mass" formed to a living sculpture, which reacts to its surrounding space. The movements of the mass in the space are defined by the repetition of monotone gestures, whose function seems familiar, but is subordinated to the dramaturgy of the moving image and are isolated from its context. "What is important is that the immobility of a sculpture is a tense immobility, the ?eternal moment' of the sculpture - something slightly stretched, like trembling. For example, lyrical trembling, trembling before discomfort." (Alimpiev) The sound, be it in form of music oder the spoken word, has a decisive signification for the rhythm of this tense immobility. So in the work "Nightingale" (2005) the crowd of people seems to follow silent stage direction and therewith to abscond from the suck of Mahlers symphonie resounding out of the background. In "What is this place called?" (2006) it is the language, performed as a monotone sprechgesang and the significance of the word, which forms and places a group of 15 people in the space to a sculptural element. By encircling the group with the cameras and frozening single gestures in close-ups, there is achieved a level of merger of body and lanuage, which the theatre is denied because its impossibility of concurrency. Even in "Sommerlightning" (2004) image and movement undergo a symbiosis. School kids thump with their fingers on school banks or lay their hands - without the motivation getting apparent - with the palms opened on top of the table, to - little later - continue with the thumping. The menacing sound of the thumping is disrupted by the helpless gesture of the opened kids hands, so that the childish action seems to be a direct translation of the temper transmitted in the documentation of the natural phenomena of sommerlightnings which are superimposed to the video in irregular intervals. The start of the gallery season will be held on September 8th, 2006 with an exhibition of the Swiss media artist YVES NETZHAMMER. He will show new video works as well as video installations.