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Past

The Site of Film

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A square installation of blue and yellow-pink neon lights, placed at the intersection of two walls in a corner of the room.
untitled (to Donna) 5, In the exhibition “Phares”, Centre Pompidou-Metz, february 2014 © Dan Flavin|Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. RMN-GP|Adagp, Paris|SABAM Belgium 2018
untitled (to Donna) 5, In the exhibition “Phares”, Centre Pompidou-Metz, february 2014 — © Dan Flavin|Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. RMN-GP|Adagp, Paris|SABAM Belgium 2018

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An exploration of the different dimensions of film which invites the spectator to circulate inside the moving images …

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Kanal Brut
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Taking over three sets of the showroom, the project ‘The Film Set’ explores the properties of film from the perspective of its visual dimension.

In its traditional form, the cinematographic spectacle rests on the viewer’s forgetting of the machine that conditions the production and dissemination of the images. The cinema of visual artists seeks on the contrary to express its materiality by revealing the presence of the surface, of light and the space that condition its perception. From the visual paradoxes of the American David Haxton to the simple geometric forms of Anthony McCall, the spectator is no longer motionless in front of the movie, but circulates in the middle of and inside moving images.

  • Several people are in a dark room lit by beams of white light crossing each other and projected from opposite corners.
    Long Film for Four Projectors, 1974 © Anthony McCall|Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Service de la documentation photographique du MNAM/Dist. RMN-GP|Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Thomas Zander
  • David Haxton drawing a large geometric wire structure in the shape of a pyramid.
    Pyramid Drawings, 1976-77, 16mm, nb, sil, 12min (détail) © Courtesy David Haxton
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