Working on an architectural scale, these projects work beyond the gallery or institutional scale, into the space of a city.
ORT - Le Volcan Le Havre 2017 © Bruno Klomfar
ORT juxtaposes natural environments, mostly deserts in Utah, US and Sharjah, UAE, with digitally constructed landscapes, grids and atmospheres. Monumental human heads - CGI characters created from human motion capture material – are sitting in-, drifting over- and generally populating the panoramic, hybrid landscapes. Inspired by the ancient statues of Easter Island, these 3D heads, equally natural and synthetic, exist in motion loops only, devoid of bodies or agency.
ORT, after its initial presentation in Le Havre, is now shown indoors in its "unrolled" long stretch panorama form.
VIEW - Video installation, Los Angeles LAX airport, 2010-2018 © Kurt Hentschläger
The work at LAX unfolded along a meandering string of 29 video screens hanging above the waiting area of the arrival hall. Two full panoramic cycels of the marsh site were visible at any given moment across all screens, with the increased blurring of the temporal element moving from the right to the left. The panoramas, while visually matching from screen to screen, time- wise were set apart, an illusion constructed in editing. Each discrete screen, moving from the far left to far right, shows an earlier point in time, as recorded by a single camera, sweeping 360 degrees on a motor mount.
VIEW was part of "See Change," featuring 17 original, site-specific artworks, located in the lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles LAX airport.
Thanks to curator Anne Bray and all fellow artists participating in the project.
NATURE04 © Kurt Hentschläger
nature04 takes the concepts of time, sequence and matrix to create a contemporary jacquemart, a mechanical public clockwork, animating specific kinetic patterns throughout the night. In cycles, bursts of light spread over the sides of the tower and then subside again. Eventually there is only darkness and stillness – the tower rests as if exhausted. Regaining "consciousness" at specific moments, the light patterns often conclude with static icons, like punctuation marks along the timeline.
LICHTWERK © Kurt Hentschläger
