Thursday, 3 April 2008
Wolfgang Staehle "Empire 24/7"
«Empire 24/7» - Instant images for instant consumption: In this hommage to Andy Warhol, which originally appeared as a projected environment in the 1999 exhibit «net_condition» at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, a video camera pointed out of The Thing's New York office window captures a continuous image of Leona Helmsley's prized possession, i.e. the Empire State Building.
24/7 refers to the availability of access usually to a shop, open 24 hours on 7 days a week.
Wolfgang Staehle
Andy Wahrol's "Empire"
Andy Warhol. Empire. 1964. 16mm film, black and white, silent, 8 hours, 6 minutes (approx.). The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Film Preservation Program. Still.
The explanatory text below is taken from the MoMA web site.
Empire consists of a single stationary shot of the Empire State Building filmed from 8:06 p.m. to 2:42 a.m., July 25–26, 1964. The eight-hour, five-minute film, which is typically shown in a theater, lacks a traditional narrative or characters. The passage from daylight to darkness becomes the film’s narrative, while the protagonist is the iconic building that was (and is again) the tallest in New York City. Warhol lengthened Empire's running time by projecting the film at a speed of sixteen frames per second, slower than its shooting speed of twenty-four frames per second, thus making the progression to darkness almost imperceptible. Non-events such as a blinking light at the top of a neighboring building mark the passage of time. According to Warhol, the point of this film—perhaps his most famous and influential cinematic work—is to "see time go by."
Thomas Ruff on Mies van der Rohe
w.h.s. 10 (2004)
w.h.s. 03 (2001)
w.h.s. 08 (2001)
h.e.k. 04 (2000)
h.l.k. 02 (2000)
h.t.b. 02 (1999)
h.t.b. 01 (1999)
Jeff Wall on Mies van der Rohe
Morning Cleaning, Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barcelona 1999
Transparency in lightbox 1807 x 3510 mm
Collection of the artist, on permanent loan to the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Cinematographic photograph
© The artist
Jeff Wall on H & deM
Dominus Estates Wineyard, 1999. Jeff Wall, photographer (Vancouver, Canada, 1946). Dominus Estates Wineyard, 1999. Gelatin silver print (1,98 x 2,54 cm). © Jeff Wall Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. American Friends of the CCA/Gift of Seagram Chateau & Estate Wines Company.
Notepad
It starts as a notepad, a visual archive, a temporary collection, ready to jump further. The simple idea is to gather artworks framing architecture, which means buildings and/or projects. And then all things collateral. Then it can become something else, somewhere else.
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