[rohrpost] Review ReOpening Palazzo delle Esposizioni "Time Lines" Video Installation (Rome/ Italy)

[Philipp Geist]

Review Video Installation "Time Lines" by Philipp Geist

Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome/ Italy)
http://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/canale.asp?id=175

7th September ReOpening with Walter Veltroni (Mayor/ Rome)
8th September "Notte Bianca"

To celebrate the reopening of one of Rome's most important cultural centres, on the nights
of September 7th & 8th, the video installation "time lines" by Philipp Geist transformed the
monumental façade of the building into video-architecture of dreamy digital settings and
fragments of classical art

produced by Zoneattive for Palazzo delle Esposizioni
executive producer Brancaleone | Impact


"Time Lines" Photos & Movies

"Time Lines" video installation website
http://www.videogeist.de/geist_time_lines_RomePdE.html

Movies
http://www.videogeist.de/geist_time_lines_movie.html

Installation Pictures
http://www.videogeist.de/bilder/Rome_GeistPdE_TimeLines/index.html


PRESS - TV REPORTS

Deutsche Welle - DW TV Report (D/Eng) Real Player
http://www.videogeist.de/DW_PdE_euromaxx.html

Rai.tv (Italian TV)
http://www.videogeist.de/Rai_PdE_TimeLines.html

Teseo-Editore Interview by Enrico Orsingher
http://www.videogeist.de/TESEO-EDITORE_Geist0907.pdf  (italian)
http://www.videogeist.de/TeseoEditoreGeist.html   (english)
www.teseoeditore.it

ReOpening with the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni
http://www.eidonpress.com/index.php?url=zoom.php&id=195787
http://www.eidonpress.com/index.php?url=zoom.php&id=195790
http://www.eidonpress.com/index.php?url=storia.php&id=16659


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Video Installation 'TIME LINES' by Philipp Geist

For his Video Installation 'time lines' in Rome, the Berlin-based artist Philipp Geist (born 1976)
deliberately avoids the use of canvases and instead projects directly onto the concrete building
façades of Plazzo delle Esposizioni. On 7th & 8th of September, visitors can expect to see a
selection of images alternating between purist, dreamlike and intangibly fragile compositions.
The starting foundation for all of Philipp Geist's work is video material solely filmed and
produced by himself.

Philipp Geist filmed ancient art objects, as for example statues, antique sculptures, busts, paintings,
gold decoration and mosaics in Rome and Berlin, from unusual perspectives. Geist used modern
digital techniques (hard- and software) to manipulate the filmed images by abstracting, recolouring
and overlaying them. Elements of the art pieces are seperated from their context and arranged in
new picture variants and artistic compositions. In the video installation art pieces from same and
different epochs are combined. The projected moving images can be seen only on smooth surfaces
in a clear and unbroken way. This fragmentary effect refers to the partial, only incompletely preserved
antique art objects, and thus develops a symbiosis between the projection wall and the video art. An
interaction emerges between the antique works and the contemporary, digital medium videoart on the
architecture and the spectators, which both serve as projection ground.

By opting to use the three-dimensional, defined structure contours as projection surfaces instead of
canvases, Geist increases the motifs and abstractions while simultaneously regaining depth and
diversity. In this way, Geist initiates a dialogue between the historical architecture, his artistic work
and the people going in and out of the structure: The visitor himself becomes part of the projected
image on the threshold between the inside and outside of the building.

The visitors make a time journey within picture worlds, which range from antiquity to the digital age.


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