— Auteurs : David Bussel, Sven Lütticken, Jan Verwoert, Onno I. M. Ydena ; préface de Beatrix Ruf
— Éditeurs : Jrp/Ringier ; Kunsthalle, Zürich
— Année : 2004
— Format : 20,50 x 25,50 cm
— Illustrations : nombreuses, en couleur et en noir et blanc
— Pages : 111
— Langues : anglais, allemand
— ISBN : 2-940271-33-X
— Prix : 30 €
Présentation
Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij produce films and photographs, concentrating on a single take, action, or object. Using the disturbing «beauty» of familiar compositional and formal principles, their images question representation by over-determining their pictorial or compositional references. The artists make the qualities of film available as moving-image aggregates: space and time, dialogues, sound, light, focus, are all «performers» in their own right. Their most recent work, Crystals I–IX (2003), which uses scientific apparatus and an abstract experimental film approach, shows the crystallization process of substances like plant fertilizer or vitamin C, hybridizing our reading of scientific and artistic research, organic and abstract vocabulary, and natural forms and artefacts.
The book discusses how socio-political issues and cultural-historical artefacts become the background for «cinema in its decontextualized form.» Focusing on a selected group of works in which the artists specifically address the relationship between abstract and objective models of representation, it includes a large number of color images for the first time, as well as four new essays that take a variety of scientific and theoretical approaches. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach in close collaboration with the artists, this comprehensive monograph is a key to their complex and challenging work.
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Les artistes
Jeroen de Rijke est né en 1970 à Brouwershaven, Pays-Bas. Il vit et travaille à Amsterdam.
Willem de Rooij est né en 1969 à Berverwijk, Pays-Bas. Il vit et travaille à Amsterdam.
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