Aleksander Komarov On Translation: Transparency/Architecture acoustique, Berlin, 29 Feb-30 March

(2008 02 28 09:51)

 

Opening Friday, February 29, 2008, 7 p.m.
Finissage Sunday, March 30, 2008, 6 p.m.

The exhibition On Translation: Transparency/Architecture acoustique is the the first solo presentation in Germany of the artist Aleksander Komarov (*1971 in Grodno, Bielorussia, lives in Rotterdam since 2000).  It is also the first of a series of exhibitions on spatial concepts and contemporary architecture taking place at uqbar project space in 2008.

The video installation On Translation: Transparency/Architecture acoustique was originally designed for the 10th Interntional Istanbul Biennial (2007).  The artist highlights the meaning, implications and historic change of the term "transparency" from different perspectives.

 

The chief element of the installation is a film. It conissts of  three 10-minutes -long parts in which Komarov opposes shots of the glass facade of the Van Neely factory in Rotterdam with shots of the glass cupola of Berlin's Reichstag building. The two edifices represent different architectural concepts and ways of dealing with transparency.  The artist asked different composers to comment the images with music. . Each part shows almost the same images accompanied by a different soundtrack, causing a shift in the perception.

 

In the exhibition at uqbar the film is projected on a transparent screen, flanked by a red LED ticker that displays excerpts from an interview by Aleksander Komarov with the architect and theorist Carl Zillich, which refers to the theoretical and aesthetic considerations the project is based on.

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A project by Dorothee Bienert, Dortje Drechsel, Marina Sorbello, Antje Weitzel 

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