Overground | Installation view at Art Unlimited (08/06/2008)
Marcellvs L. | 52°30'50.13" N 13°22'42.05" E (05/11/2008)
May 3–June 7, 2008
Opening: May 2, 6–9 pm
Gallery Weekend: May 3–4, 2008, 10 am – 7 pm
carlier | gebauer
The title of Marcellvs L.’s video installation consists of the geographical coordinates of the place where the images emerged. Five parallel screens show five views of corridors that are intersected by passageways. The cameras point in the same direction, but from five different fixed positions, show the corridors’ own axial symmetry. The views are disrupted at random intervals by people crossing and wandering through the corridors, shifting in scale because of the different camera’s positions. This activity does not follow any recognizable rhythm or pattern. The view of the place becomes an irritating abstraction, as suggested by the work’s title. The geographical data are just as precise as they are abstract, while the symmetry of the place restricts human movement to two dimensions: the people cross the camera’s field horizontally or they move about in the depths of the space. The formal consistency of the presentation is further broken on two temporal levels: the videos were recorded over a six months period, yet at different intervals. Furthermore, the different lengths of each video, from 8 to 40 min, result in overlapping within their duration.
In his work, Marcellvs L. creates a place that appears to exist solely in the present, but which cannot be situated in reality.
For further information and photographs please contact Philipp Selzer at ps@carliergebauer.com or at +49 30 2400 863 0.
ars viva 07/08 | Museum Morsbroich (10/16/2007)
We are pleased to announce ars viva's first exhibition at Museum Morsbroich, Lerverkusen, Germany
09 October 2007 - 06 January 2008
Opening Reception: Sunday 07 October, 2007
Opening Hours:
Monday: closed
Tuesday: 11h to 21h
Wednesday to Sunday: 11h to 17h
Venue:
Museum Morsbroich
Gustav-Heinemann Straße 80
51377 Leverkusen, Germany
Tel: +49 (0) 214855560
Fax: +49 (0) 2148555644
e-mail: museum-morsbroich@kulturstadtlev.de
Download:
Time Doesn't Go By (text written by Jennifer Allen about the work of Marcellvs L. for the exhibition's catalogue)
44th New York Film Festival (12/04/2006)
The Tenth Annual Views from the Avant-Garde
A Special Presentation of the 44th New York Film Festival
October 7, 8 & 15, 2006
0778 man.road.river
Marcellvs l, Brazil, 2004; 9m
man.road.river introduces a space that is viscous and indeterminate. An image is an aspic, and an adhesive in which an event is held in a optical resemblance that creates difference according to its luxuriance or degradation, its infidelities to the original event. There is always something missing as well as added, insinuated into the copy. The quality and character of movement in a moving image is redefined by its residence inside the given texture of the medium and the precise nature of the shot. Passing time moves with and against that texture and within the length of a shot builds up it’s own “cabin pressure.” Its natural measure attenuated by minute resistances and frictions and the grade of the slope, just as we might swim or climb depending on the medium we are confronting. This friction in turn perturbs or compounds the texture through its force and abrasion. In man.road.river different bodies and mediums come into contact. The man fords the shallows of an overflowing river and walks thorough a compressed depth of field without altering his course or increasing his limited awareness of the image to which he contributes a central energy. Elements cohere or at least cling in confusion and the witnessed event is rendered as something else, a version of what occurred and the concretization of a mirage, something that never occurred (externally) until it passed through the lens. The ephemeral saved and held in captivity is made to repeat itself in terms that are natural enough but unevenly translated. A recognizable shape but unidentified
man emerged from a walking chrysalis ( globular soft focused and near sepia )into greater definition and scale. The man continues unimpeded down the road. Out of frame, out of mind. – Ana Silviera
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