Video Programme

The selection of video works by Rivane Neuenschwander (Brazil), Jacco Olivier (The Netherlands) and Jennifer Steinkamp (USA) was conceived in relation to the retrospective exhibition of Fikret Muallâ.This video program showed how contemporary artists use new technologies to bring painting beyond its classical limits. Thanks to the wide possibilities of projections and computer animations, the traditional genres of landscape and portrait gain movement and change shape, perspective or colour. Through the interaction with sound and architecture, painting abandons its static character, expands from the bounds of the canvas and explores new conceptual and aesthetical territories.

Jacco Olivier (Goes, The Netherlands, 1972) created a series of "Moving Pictures" that bring the classical horizons of painting into new areas of technical development and visual pleasure. Creating a series of pictures with abstract or figurative landscapes, he photographs and films these fragments to produce vivid and poetic animations. The meaning of these humorous visual narratives is enhanced by the interconnection of the images and the sound tracks.

Jennifer Steinkamp (Denver, USA, 1958) uses computer animation to create virtual forms that provoke new perceptions of the architectural spaces where they are projected. "Eye Catching 5" shows the image of a young tree in motion. This image belongs to a series of trees that were specifically created for the Yerebatan Cistern in 2003 during the 8th International Istanbul Biennial.
Rivane Neuenschwander (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1967) connects science and language in order to reinscribe culture into nature. “Love Lettering” is a video made with her brother, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. Words taken from love letters were cut out and attached to the tails of red-orange fish in an aquarium. The trajectories of the undulating fish compose disconnected or intensified combinations of meanings.Combining formal systems with organic forces, Neuenschwander proposes a new balance between art and nature.

Curator: Rosa Martínez