Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Cinéma 2 - Surface en mouvement et mouvement des surfaces
Cinéma et Vidéo - Séance
05.01.2011, 7pm
Surface in motion and movement of surfaces
Artists: William Raban, Robert Breer, Georges Cup & Steve Elliott,
Christian Lebrat, Hans Richter, Jonas Dahlberg, Hans Richter
Surface in motion and movement of surfaces. Combining avant-
garde cinema, artist and video film, "film architectures" is a program
trying to reread, by extension, the formal and theoretical
constituents of an artistic modernity defined, in the 1920s, by The
Stijl group. One Way Street, by Jonas Dahlberg, 2002, 6 ' / Unitled
(Horizontal Sliding), by Jonas Dahlberg, 2000, 10' / Rhythm 21, by
Hans Richter, 1921, 3 ' / Diagonal, by William Raban, 1973, 6' (Triple
screen) / Rhythm 23, by Hans Richter, 1923, 2'30 / Form Phases I, by
Robert Breer, 1952, 3 ' / The Connection Between Form and
Sound # 27 [sic! The Connection Between Form and Sound # 21], by
George Cup & Steve Elliott, 1979, 3 ' / Bang!, By Robert Breer, 198,
8' / Orgnization II, by Christian Lebrat, 1977, 5 ' / Trama, by Christian
Lebrat, 1980, 12'.
Program designed and presented by Marie Canet, independent
commissioner, echoing the exhibition "Mondrian/de Stijl", the Film
"offers a new overview of the museum's cinematographic
collections.
De Stijl's interest in movement was theorized in a series of articles
published between 1924 and 1927. The notion of "elementarism"
developed by Theo Van Doesburg can be understood as a
philosophy of the diagonal in art. If time and space are the most
basic elements or means to create a new plastic expression, it
replaces Mondrian's meditative compositions a new conception of
harmony based on the dynamics of forces. Against harmonious
stastism, between positive and negative, space and color, it is
positioned in favor of an aesthetic of "counter-composition", built on
optical dynamism. In between in motion and movement of surfaces,
this program associates, from avant-garde cinema to its current
development, linear balances and oblique compositions.
Code Couleur 9 / Toute L‘ actualité du Centre Pompidou,
Janvier-Mars 2011
George Cup & Steve Elliott: The connection between form and
sound, 1978, Artist Video, New York / 2008
