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Galerie Martin Janda: curated by_Martin Arnold: art&film; - 7 May 2010 to 5 June 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Runa Islam, Rapid Eye Movement, 2002, filmstill
Courtesy White Cube, London |
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curated by_Martin Arnold: art&film; Opening: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 6 p.m. � 10 p.m. Gallery breakfast: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 11 a.m. � 1 p.m. Exhibition runs: 07.05. � 05.06.2010 Galerie Martin Janda is showing the exhibition Blinking with films by Martin Arnold, Runa Islam and Owen Land. People tend to blink between 8 and 41 times per minute. This means that, during this time frame, a person is, on average, blind for about six seconds. Traditional motion pictures, too, flicker, projecting 24 frames per second, which are interrupted by 48 phases of complete darkness. Sitting in the dark recesses of a movie theatre, watching the images fluttering across the screen, the lid�s blinking reflex sets in, uniformly, with about half of the audience, in keeping with the events depicted. The matter so projected is, therefore, not only collectively viewed but also collectively overlooked. The individuals attending the screening thus become an audience; not least through the social loop of the simultaneous act of repetitive blinking, constituting themselves, through their shared temporary blindness, as a group. Darkness does not, however, pertain solely to the cinema. The blindingly white walls of exhibition halls in art galleries and museums require us to blink if we want to recognise the picture in amongst the many dark omissions, the blind spots in our field of vision. Can a history of seeing be told without taking cognisance of the history of overlooking? The exhibition gathers together artistic positions that display a common interest in the joy of recognition and the failure to recognise, in perception and misperception, appearance and disappearance, in a word � in blinking. (Martin Arnold) Martin Arnold is one of the most esteemed filmmakers, coming from the field of experimental film. Arnold achieved international recognition especially with a series of 16mm films including pi�ce touch�e (1989), passage � l�acte (1993) and Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998). In recent years, he produced and directed film installations in digital formats, such as Deanimated � The Invisible Ghost (2002), Silent Winds (2005) or Coverversion (2008). Arnold�s work was shown at international film festivals (including Cannes, Rotterdam, New York) and in renowned museums and cinematheques, such as Centre Pompidou, Cinematheque Royale Brussels, Tate Modern, National Film Theatre London and MoMA. For more information see: www.curatedby.at |
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