AROTIN & SERGHEI
INFINITE SCREEN - work in progress
visual installation by AROTIN & SERGHEI
Unlike usual computer screens, in which pixels are always arranged in such a way as to realize the best possible image display and readability, “INFINITE SCREEN” works with the surface of illusion itself and with the hidden “alphabet” of red, blue and green light cells which, by means of their infinite gradations of intensity, are capable of representing all possible signs, images and texts. In reality, these particles are so small that they are not individually distinguishable by the human eye. In the artistic work of AROTIN & SERGHEI these nano-components become large scale light-cell images that create new visual space .
The installation INFINITE SCREEN will be realized in several forms, each in a different context.
The first part was created in the Vienna Konzerthaus in collaboration with Klangforum Wien and museum in progress as a square 12 x 12 meter projection on space modules simultaniously to the world premiere of “Parole di settembre I-III “- a musical composition by Aureliano Cattaneo.
This composition was inspired by the dadaistic contemplations of the Italian neoavantguarde poet Edoardo Sanguineti (1930 - 2010) about pictural elements in the oeuvre of the Italian early Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), who consistently applied Leon Battista Alberti’s laws of perspective (1453) on drawings of human body, enabling new extensions of space in visual art.
The installation INFINITE SCREEN was electronically animated by AROTIN & SERGHEI .
The visual development references both a stylized - digitized view of the sky through the square frame in the circular courtyard of Mantegna’s house in Mantua, as well as the framework of Sanguineti ‘s picture book of infinite possible image combinations, published as “biggest art book in the world” by 1966 Mazotta, Milan, that plays in an ironic way with image citations and anticipate the digital context of future.
Showing ubiquitous digital picture elements in the context of the development of perspective in painting, the work of AROTIN & SERGHEI recalls today, in a time of visual oversaturation, the endless empty wallspace on which the vanishing point of a forward looking perspective was projected.
press extracts:
A multimedial long distance flight (… ) large scale visualization by AROTIN & SERGHEI (…) Enthusiastic applauses after landing.
“DER STANDARD”, 12./13.10.2013 - Stefan Ender, “A Multimedial Long Distance Flight”
The visualization of the artist duo AROTIN & SERGHEI shows geometric figures, surfaces of light cells and simulated space perspectives and integrates also partly distorted iconografic citations on the screen projection. This visualization transformed ??the evening into a great multimedial event without covering the music as a “spectacle”. Much exaltation after short 70 minutes.
"DIE PRESSE", Wien print edition, 12.10.2013 - Walter Weidringer "Lamentation of Christ and abstract circles”
It was an exceptional concert on several levels. For one, it was held in the Great Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus. On the other side, because “Parole di settembre” was accompanied by the video installation “Infinite screen” that was projected on a giant screen behind the orchestra. It interacted with the music, especially with the three vocalists and offered a varied abstract comment. (…) The music is rarely loud, but explores sound spaces at the edges of audibility. As expected, the Klangforum’s interpretation was musically immaculate. Such perfection is found only rarely in musical Vienna.
Dr Christian Köllerer 13.10.2013 “Wiener Notizen über Klassiker, Kulturelles und Reisen”
Vienna Konzerthaus - Klangforum Wien: The Renaissance with the pearl curtain (...) superelevated with a huge visual wall by AROTIN & SERGHEI.
Endless lines and rare enchantment. (...) At the end bright applause.
„WIENER ZEITUNG“ 11.10.2013 - Christoph Irrgeher „The Renaissance with the pearl curtain”