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- Room for Thought - San Francisco Moma
1 to 4- Alexander Hahn, Luminous Point (still), 2006-7
Interactive single-channel color video projection with sound, dimensions variable
Produced with support from sitemapping, a project of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and the Experimental Television Center’s Finishing Funds Program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and MediaThe foundation inc. Courtesy the artist; © 2008 Alexander Hahn
5 and 6- Yves Netzhammer, Furniture of Proportions (preparatory sketch), 2008
Mixed media and three-channel color video installation with sound, 35:42 min. loop, soundtrack by Bernd Schurer
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
© 2008 Yves Netzhammer
7- Yves Netzhammer, Furniture of Proportions (video still), 2008
Courtesy the artist and Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
© 2008 Yves Netzhammer
The San Francisco MoMA exhibits two premiering new-media installations, the work of Swiss artists Alexander Hahn (born 1954) and Yves Netzhammer (born 1970). Two projections of their mental panoramas.
In Luminous Point (2006), Hahn re-built a domestic environment, that of his own flat in the Lower East Side, from photographs and images he created. The spectator moves inside it using a remote controller, and is confronted with enigmatic elements: a Zeppelin from the 1900's, Assyrian mosaics, historical frescoes... One moment a room looks lived in, the next it seems to have long fallen into disuse, and in the bathroom the tub fills and empties, as if under the influence of a mysterious presence. It is possible to exit the apartment and leave for one of the destinations filmed by Hahn: one can roam the adjoining streets, follow an animal's track into the woods, explore a salt mine in Poland... This environment, naturally, stands first and foremost for the inside of the artist's mind.
Yves Netzhammer, for his part, shows Furniture of Proportions (2008), a complex installation mixing animation, wall drawings and props, whose image is chanelled through a series of sculpted tubular shapes and cast onto surrounding walls or mirrored surfaces. A manner of grasping the baroque fluidity of the creative process.
Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
July 10 through October 5, 08
