Walden : Daniel Zimmermann /
Daniel Zimmermann (b. 1966, CH) is a visual artist and film-maker. His films, installations and performances touch the interface between visual art and action. The artist reacts to situations and environments and questions the meaning and sustainability of human behaviour. The Swiss artist's on...
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| Language: | English |
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Vienna :
Verlag fur moderne Kunst,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Daniel Zimmermann (b. 1966, CH) is a visual artist and film-maker. His films, installations and performances touch the interface between visual art and action. The artist reacts to situations and environments and questions the meaning and sustainability of human behaviour. The Swiss artist's one-person exhibition is his first retrospective. It presents the new film installation Walden in the context of older videos, photographs and installations that through their juxtaposition emphasise the diversity of his practice. A publication on Walden will accompany the exhibition. A fir tree is felled in the forest of the Benedictine monastery Admont Abbey and cut into 1.500 planks, which are stacked up and transported by train, lorry, ship and boat along one of the world's most important transport routes to the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. By means of mechanically operated 360-degree shots, the film "Walden" slowly and meticulously accompanies this voyage of over 15.000 kilometres by focusing on thirteen selected locations. The film was preceded by a development and preparation phase of several years, with the purpose of creating a visual screenplay in order to convey the characteristics of every location as carefully as possible, to determine the actions of people and machines, and to rhythmise the dramaturgy of every sequence shot, so that later the desired images could be choreographed on the set. The visual screenplay, consisting in total of forty-six 360-degree sequence shots (twenty-seven were filmed, of which thirteen appear in the film "Walden"), serves as a basis for this publication. Exhibition: Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre d'art Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (02.02. - 05.04.2020). |
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| Physical Description: | approximately 112 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 31 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783903320529 3903320528 |