Aus der Serie "Video-Landschaften"

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Ernst Caramelle

Video-Landschaft (Holzleiste), 1974

Documentation of the video installation black-and-white photograph, vintage print, baryta paper 18.3 x 23.9 cm, framed 35.5 x 42.5 cm

GF0002212.00.0-2000

Artwork text

In Video Landscapes, the monitor shows precisely those parts of a space it is obscuring from view. The monitor is placed in front of a curtain or a person in such a way that it seems like a window. In reality, however, one sees a videotape depicting an image tailored precisely to the background. Because reality is obscured by the monitor, I try to render this interrupted visual experience visible again or to supplement it. Video technology is used here not to replay action but simply to produce freeze-frames. Supplements to, or alienations of, interrupted reality. Because this project needs the real environment of the monitor, an exhibition is only possible if photographic documents are used or if another video recording is made. (Ernst Caramelle)

Lending history
2007 New York, NY, USA, Austrian Cultural Forum New York 2005 Zagreb, CRO, Galerija Klovicevi Dvori 2005 Munich, DE, Haus der Kunst 2005 Rotterdam, NL, TENT. Platform voor hedendaagse kunst