elephant gun and listen to the chorus Vader in love
July 21, 2008, membrana
Unthinkable balancing multi-ton animal to elongated trunk. Speed gun, destroying beer bottles. Зловещая электронная машина, отсылающая к фильмам Джорджа Лукаса и Стэнли Кубрика. What could it all combined? American stadium in the French art center named after the Japanese capital!
Paris contemporary art museum Palais de Tokyo is now carrying out one of the most bizarre of his exhibitions SUPERDOME.
Name she received on behalf of the Superdome stadium in New Orleans.
The French write that this structure (born in 1975) has seen a lot in his lifetime: the Cup finals on American football, and a concert of Rolling Stones, and the statement of Pope John Paul II, and the Congress of the Republican Party, and finally, the thousands and thousands of refugees, homeless during the rampage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
"Paradoxical Superdome building bridges between the largest entertainment and an absolute disaster" - explain the organizers of the exhibition select its name.
Several authors have provided a Parisian halls of his works, as "balance between entertainment and devastation."
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Thus, the French artist Daniel Firman (Daniel Firman) perched in the center of the empty hall of the elephant Würsa, providing him with "subhead" - a 18 000 km de la terre. То есть "в 18 тысячах километров над Землёй".
His creation, not costing no "magic" taxidermist, Jean-Pierre Gerard (Jean-Pierre Gérard), Daniel intent on shaking a philistine if you like - daily, of the power and immutability of gravity.
You say: plant a sculpture on a pillar inside the trunk - small labor. But the artist is trying to surprise us: "And this elephant could easily perform such a trick, is 18 thousand kilometers above the Earth, or if our planet would be much larger in diameter.
Then the weight of the thick-skinned giant would have been smaller, and he (with due diligence, I suppose) could show in a circus trick.
The balance of the elephant, bored in the exhibition hall, seems unreliable. So just believe in the wisdom and foresight of the author tracks the visitors dare to approach the beast (full-size, among other things) up close.
Some sort entertaining physics, are sent to the viewer to the Space Association (satellite, the conquest of planets), materializing an idea of decreasing (in full accordance with the law of gravity) force of gravity.
But Fabien Giraud (Fabien Giraud) and Rafael Sibony (Raphaël Siboni) had tried to show the nature of "evil in the car", which built the installation "The latest maneuvers in the dark" (Last Manoeuvres in the Dark).
300 terracotta mask of Darth Vader (Darth Vader) lined up in neat rows, like Terracotta Army (Terracotta Army) Chinese Emperor Shi Huang (Shi Huang Di).
All masks are equipped with speakers, microprocessors and are connected with a powerful computer (black - apparently, it was important for artists), who occupied that composes the "most sinister" melody in the world.
Black masks of the famous movie character for the two Frenchmen - a reference point in the search depth "darkness" being waged by some analysis program music.
The Imperial March from "Star Wars" (Star Wars) inventors, it seems, deemed insufficiently gloomy. Because they are loaded into memory a huge stock of "black" works - every kind of requiem to heavy metal.
From these pieces of tracks and the car is a "hymn to evil", the executable army of dark Jedi Knights (I wonder if familiar Fabien and Rafael with concrete song?)
It is interesting that the main inspiration for Last Manoeuvres in the Dark, according to Giraud and Sibony, they come not from "Star Wars", but on the other fantastic bands - "Space Odyssey 2001" (2001: A Space Odyssey).
In the famous 1968 film is a scene in which an astronaut gradually disables blocks rebellious intelligent computer HAL 9000, killed all the members of the crew, except, indeed, the main character. Switchable electronic brain "regressing" to the beginning of his life and before the final breakdown of the singing children's song, so contrasting with the "evil nature of the adult" computer (in fact - just a terribly good).
This episode helped spur the French pair of reflections on the theme: what makes a computer evil and what makes a computer wise? And while this reasonable (and evil) computers do not exist, visitors are invited to listen to something like their impending gait.
All this, incidentally, reminds okolonauchnye experiments on transferring the soul of the flower in the computer.
Third is an example of "good madness" - the work of Italian masters Arcangelo Sassolino (Arcangelo Sassolino). This little thing called Afasia 1, but a gun, using compressed nitrogen.
In the gun, nothing much would have happened if it were not for the shells. It's empty beer bottles. They fly out of the barrel at a speed of 600 kilometers per hour and fly to pieces when hitting the wall.
The entire installation is enclosed in a steel cage, the cells which may, however, keep only the largest pieces of bottles. Medium and small fragments can hardly notice it. It is fortunate that most of them fell near the wall. There broken glass gradually forms a real green carpet.
But why a bottle of beer? This, according to the creator of the machine, referring to pop culture, rock and "public violence".
We are all in it are, if not "negative character", the passive audience.
The author has this little show (and the gun automatically makes a shot every few minutes) offers visitors to the hall itself to decide how far to the black wall is acceptable to them. After all, along the cell can pass freely.
On the one hand, curiosity prompts a closer look at the "explosion" of a flying bottle, the other - requires caution to stay away from glass splinters.
Whose voice will be stronger? This is a dangerous feeling of balance and tried to pass Arcangelo.
And then you can still recall: how often we have seen the aggression on the streets as more and more willing to absorb a lot of people "hot" and sometimes bloody news, pressed to the television. The point here, of course, not in beer. But for some reason he artist "charged" scare visitors.
Of course, this is not all work included in SUPERDOME. And why are all the same, they are united under the name of American stadium, we do not really understand. Want to make your opinion? Will travel in the French capital - look at the Palais de Tokyo. The exhibition will run until Aug. 24.
photos Didier Barroso and We Make Money Not Art; We Make Money Not Art; photos from dianepernet.typepad.com; photo from palaisdetokyo.com