A treatise on the apparatus and the artistic yield of Yervant Gianikian Angela Ricci Lucchi

No schematic of it has ever been published; it has never been put on display. [...]we must survey the artistic yield that it generates. Embodying the spirit of such a balance, the analytical camera is a sort of ghostly presence lingering throughout the oeuvre of the authors, which guides the spectat...

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Published in:Millennium film journal 2016-09 (64), p.68
Main Authors: De Cuir, Jr., Greg, De Rosa, Miriam
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Archives & records
Art exhibits
Artists
Cameras
Criticism and interpretation
Exhibitions
Gianikian, Yervant
Lucchi, Angela Ricci
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Ricci Lucchi, Angela
Spectatorship
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Summary:No schematic of it has ever been published; it has never been put on display. [...]we must survey the artistic yield that it generates. Embodying the spirit of such a balance, the analytical camera is a sort of ghostly presence lingering throughout the oeuvre of the authors, which guides the spectator, to follow the formulation of Frédéric Bonnaud, a la rencontre du fantomes.4 The tension between presence and absence can be read in many works presented at the exhibition. Epitomizing the sense of lack, in the Fragments Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi gather images of extraordinary intensity, both in terms of cultural brutality and significance: the encounter between a bourgeois family and a Roma family shows the curiosity of the former towards the latter, who are scrutinized while camping on the Como lake shores as if exotic attractions available to a colonialist gaze (Fragments électrique 1 - Roms [homes]). Excerpted from a wider context that is never provided, the series Fragments Electriques proposes a number of filmic sequences where the slow pace of the image complements the absence of a narrative 'before' and 'after.' Besides the Fragments, the program conceived for this space featured six other installations by the artists, including:
ISSN:1064-5586