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Item Number: 135129
Title: Passo a due : the avant-gardes of motion
Author: Giusti, Lorenzo ; Elena Volpato
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788897503415
Description: Roma: Nero, 2014. 23cm., pbk., 142pp. illus. Italian-English text. Exhibition held at Museo d'arte provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro. Summary: The exhibition will explore one of the most fascinating opportunities that animation offers for the creation of art works: the opportunity to use motion. For many artists and film-makers this feature is so attractive that they employ it, like a stroke of magic, to bring life to the drawn line, shape, marionettes, or photographic images. Often the creative and demiurgic imagination underlying such drawing or figurative representation can assume, via motion and music, the bewitching traits of a spell, assuming a life that is a flight of fantasy. So it is no happenstance that artists and film-makers who pick up the various techniques of animation often concentrate on images of the body, frequently evoking such figures as Frankenstein, the Golem or robots. Generally speaking the artificial generation of a body is involved, almost as if the creators intended, via a mythical narration, to emphasize their own strength as animators: giving a soul to something inanimate. This exhibition features art works that provide an historical overview of experimental and artistic animation as seen through the image of the body, of its construction and its montage. When based on drawing, animation seems to originate from line, as in the case of Émile Cohl's pioneering Fantasmagorie (1908) or Ed Emshwiller's Lifeline (1960); in the latter the white continuous mark winds itself around knots of material which, little by little, become an organic swirl that mixes with the photographic image of a ballerina's body. In another example, Head (1975) by George Griffin, the basic form of a face and the artistic tradition of self-portraiture are divested of any realistic detail before suddenly taking on new life through emotional expression and psychological nuances that are pictorially rendered.
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