CROSS AND PLANE TO SPACE

Myriam Thyes
© anaglyphe still ; Myriam Thyes

Myriam Thyes

CROSS AND PLANE TO SPACE , ongoing
Co-workers & Funding
music: Eva-Maria Houben
Documents
  • CROSS AND PLANE TO SPACE
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Description
CROSS AND PLANE TO SPACE

2017, stereoscopic 3D animation, HD video, 8:05, loop, color, stereo. For projection at the ceiling.

The title refers to Kandinsky's book "Point and Line to Plane" - here to the historic antipodes illusionism and constructivist art. In this video, the illusionistic ceiling fresco ‚Triumph of St. Ignatius of Loyola' (1685) by Andrea Pozzo meets compositions with (broken) crosses (1932) by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. While the hierarchic, centralist painting in the Jesuit church Sant'Ignazio glorifies the holy lord, Taeuber-Arp created multifocal, plane compositions of non-figurative shapes. The only thing the baroque and the modern artworks have in common, is the sign of the cross. In the animation, the oppositional artistic concepts start a competitive dialog, they influence and penetrate each other. Given the current victory of virtual worlds, this animation reflects the history of illusionism and its assumed overcoming in modernity.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • illusionary
    • installation-based
    • projected
    • remixed
  • genres
    • digital animation
    • installations
  • subjects
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • animations
      • art history
    • History and Memory
      • cultural heritage
    • Power and Politics
      • authority
    • Religion and Mythology
      • churches
      • religions
        • Christianity
Technology & Material
Installation Requirements / Space
stereoscopic 3D animation, HD video art installation
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