Door with Wall Niche. Dubrovnik 2011
Tür in Wandnische. Dubrovnik 2011
Srd / Dubrovnik 2011
Photographs / Digital Montage
Pigment Print on adhesive-backed Film. 150×270 cm
Spomenik Braniteljima Dubrovnika
The surface of the cuboid-shaped monument commemorating the siege of the city of Dubrovnik is clad with mirror- and LED-faces. The video sequences shown on the monument are next to the mirrored movements of the actual everyday life at the square: for instance the arrival and departure of cruise tourists and the video of the bombarded city. Each frame that I recorded has been equally split into reflection and video.
The montage has the runtime of a video sequence of the monument. The specially developed stereo sound makes this segmentation audible.
Tea Glass
During the journey to Odessa there is a glass of tea standing in front of the train window. Next to it lies a spoon. The train’s movements cause the elliptical surface of the tea to tremble as does the spoon. The stationary camera captures the various movements: the passing by landscape, the gentle ripple on the tea surface, the jiggling of the spoon, the play of light between spoon and tea glass and the latter’s wandering shadow. The train stops. Passengers on the platform. The agitated still life freezes. The train moves forward. The still life starts moving.
Train Ride
During the journey from Moscow to Odessa, the view from the train window is recorded. The video camera is connected with a laptop, which is placed in the centre of the image. The recording is transmitted to the computer and filmed once again. Due to the technically caused delay the Ukrainian landscape passes by in a time-staggered fashion in the display windows. The multiply replicated reflections, their pictorial depths, intersect with the horizontal movement of the ride.
Train Ride Zugfahrt
Train Ride Moskau – Odessa 2011
Apple HDV / Quicktime Movie H.264 / 1680×1050 / 25p
Mute. 15 min. Loop
Repainted Graffiti
Despite their prohibition, graffiti advance further towards Moscow’s city centre. As a kind of non-conformist expression, graffiti are not tolerated. Instead of taking costly restoring measures, the public authorities have the house walls partially repainted in different colour shades of oil- and dispersion paint. Structured house walls come into being through these large multi-coloured sections.
Some house walls are systematically photographed, section-by-section, and then digitally pieced together to large formats. The texture of the wall and the paint structures are meticulously captured. A strong illusion of spatial depth is achieved by combining numerous individual perspectives. The wall sections with their repainted traces will be brought to other (exhibition-)spaces as large-sized photographic works/objects.
Wand 1. Übermalte Graffiti Wall 1. Repainted Graffiti
Moscow. August 2009
Red Painting Rote Malerei
Green Painting Grüne Malerei
Garage Compounds Garagenkörper
Green Chequerd Courtyard Grünbunt im Innenhof
Gray in the Courtyard Grau im Innenhof
Sheet Metall Wall Blechwand
Pastell Colours Pastellfarben
Yellow Pink Wall Gelb-rosa Wand
Stained Wall Bunte Wand
Transformer House Wall Transformatoren-Haus-Wand
Repainted Graffiti / Large Format Montages
Wall from a small House. Repainted Graffiti
Wand vom kleinen Haus. Übermalte Graffiti
Moscow. June 2011
Photographs / Digital Montage
Pigment Print on adhesive-backed Film. 465 × 275 cm
Façade Projection onto the Wawel Castle / Cracow
Façade Projection onto the Wawel Castle
Design / Video sequence: Martina Wolf
Musical Composition: Hannes Seidl
Cracow / Poland 2011
In the framework of the “Sąsiedzi/Neighbors 2.0” Festival
Guest contribution by the City of Frankfurt am Main
Photograph / Documentation
Automatic Door
The automatic door of a bank building and its inscription rotate steadily. Thus, the city’s reflections are
replicated in a fragmented manner. This process runs asynchronously to a sequence shown on a
monitor placed next to the revolving door.
Automatic Door Automatiktür
Commerzbank AG, Head Quarter
Frankfurt am Main 2011
Video Installation / Exhibition View
Apple HDV / Quicktime Movie H.264 / 1920×1080 / 25p
Mute. 12 min 15 sec. Loop
Commerzbank Logo
Lobby, Headquarters of the Commerzbank, Frankfurt on the Main: Upon opening and closing of a round glass door, its movable elements shift the inscription lines of the company logo affixed to the door. The characters slide past one another, shortly stop and spin back. The camera records these movements. Monitors function as their multiplication.
RGB
LIGHT AS PLAYER
Burkhard Brunn
On board of a double-deck carriage of a regional train the view wanders past two blue backrests through a glass door at the top left – two, three steps up – towards a young, blond women, who is sitting motionless. Sunlight flits over the horizontally assembled handrail in the screen’s centre, wriggles on the steps and slithers up and down the grabpole. The bouncing light is the player in this space. Behind the sectioned windows – just barely visible – trees rush past. Outside speed and inside a sometimes brighter gleaming, sometimes a darker static stillness, which is streaked or abruptly punctuated by flitting light spots accompanied by vague and inscrutable reflections of the landscape that flash by horizontally. At the upper right of the image, there is a display to provide information for the passengers. This monitor either flickers in red, green or blue. Then suddenly all is immersed in red. Red surface. Like an explosion of the monitor. Then the motionless profile of the woman and the scintillating light. Then suddenly all is immersed in green. Green surface. Then the stone-still woman and the straying light. Then all is immersed in blue. Blue surface. Light within space or coloured surface? Space or surface – the long established problem of painting. Then from the front and in full screen, the train conductress approaches, the young women turns her head and will soon get off.