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      ROB JOHANNESMA

      IN DARK TREES

      2010 | Dutch / English | 17 x 24 cm | 108 p, ills colour & bw | softcover
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Johannesma started working with video in the mid 1990s and much of his work involves specific uses of this technique. In his video installations the camera moving at minimum speed is focused on a photograph – the video picture moves but the image does not. The large print entitled ’In Dark Trees’ presents two contrasting pictures from different ages: a late fifteenth-century painting of John the Baptist in the Wilderness by the Dutch artist Geertgen tot Sint Jans and a new photo of a rocket attack in the Gaza Strip in 2008.

Johannesmaは1990年代半ばにビデオ作品を制作しはじめたが、彼の作品の多くに特有な技法を用いている。ビデオインスタレーションでは、最小限のスピードでカメラを動かし写真にフォーカスをしぼっている。つまり、ビデオの画像は動くが、写真自体は動かない。「In Dark Trees」と題された大判プリントは、異なる年代に撮られた対照的な2枚が起用されている。1枚は50年代後半にオランダ人アーティストGeertgen tot Sint Jansによる狂気に満ちたバプテスト(浸礼教徒)Johnのペインティング、新しいものは2003年のガザ地区で行われたロケット攻撃を捉えた写真だ。
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