Voyage au Prague

Voyage au Prague me fait découvrir quelques artistes importants pour moi :

Marjorie Minkin (1941)

ECLIPSE（日蚀、月蚀，（与他人相比之下权利或名望的）丧失、黯然失色）, 2001

Plastic, donated in 2002

http://www.marjorieminkin.com/exhibitions.html

 

http://www.anothersideofin.com/proposal2.html

Another Side of In is an interactive, experiential, installation involving sound, light and movement. The project is a collaboration between visual artist, Marjorie Minkin and her musician son, Mike Gordon.

In response to 20 customized looped sounds extracted by Gordon from his album Inside In, Minkin created 20 Lexan （莱克桑 聚碳酸酯的商标）painted relief sculptures resembling abstract human torsos （头和四肢除外的人体躯干）. Each sculpture has a mounting （底座） system that accommodates a hidden speaker, sound source and proximity（接近，临近） sensor. Sounds used by Mike Gordon on his Inside In CD have been extracted and « looped » into discrete sonic elements that visitors trigger by their movements. At a variably adjustable distance from each sculpture, the sound loop associated with it begins. The sound’s volume rises or falls as one gets closer or moves away from a piece within its active zone.

A first version of this installation was presented at the Firehouse Gallery in Burlington, VT in 2006. At the opening reception of the 6 week exhibition, a dancer of Japanese Butoh movement demonstrated the interactivity of the project.

With the addition of advanced innovative electronics by new collaborator Jamie Robertson, electronics engineer and musician, this exciting new version (Another Side Of In V.2) is an expansion of the original project offering an even more interactive and engaging experience for the viewer. The exhibit uses custom designed embedded processing technology in each sculpture to interact with viewers in novel ways. Each piece has the ability to internally generate and alter sounds based on viewer proximity, and to communicate wirelessly to all the other pieces in the exhibit. In addition, the information about viewer positions is used to dynamically alter lighting, both on the individual pieces as well as in the entire space. The end result is an experience that is interactive, non-repetitive and driven by the participation of all the people in the space.

Geoffrey Hendricks

Geoffrey Hendricks (1931 Littleton, New Hampshire)

WINTER SKY II (triptych), 1986,

acrylic on canvas, donated in 2002

Geoffrey Hendricks (1931), SHINGLE AND CELESTIAL WALL, No. 10,

Český Krumlov, 2006

shingle, paper, watercolour,

donated by the artist in 2006

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hendricks

Peter Sedgley

http://mediacentre.kallaway.co.uk/kinetica_pictures3.htm

Wenzel Hablik (1881 Most – 1934 Ltzehoe)

CRYSTAL CASTLE IN THE SEA, 1914

oil on canvas

purchased in 1925

(National Gallery in Prague)