grapheme

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Grapheme is a new permanent installation at Museum Wiesbaden created by Robert Seidel.
“Hand-drawn sketches were the starting point for the installation grapheme. They delineate the artist’s initial creative idea and serve as the basis for the films projected, as well as for the form of the projection sculpture itself. These sketches are translations of memories and associations, which the artist, like in a diary, has captured from the most varied places and stations of life.

In the amorphous abstract films, the structural state of these sketches is translated into a temporal flow of images. Here, for example events from the past fade away and become connected in continual transformation to new experiences and impressions. The moving film image preserves this reconstruction process, without ever indicating an end-state.”

“The organic projection sculpture frees the film from the dogmatic limitations of rectangular screens and monitors. These delicate, laser-cut tissues float in the architectural space, light spills over them, and they come to life before the viewers’ eyes. Mirrors reflect the projected film image back onto viewers and allow them to become part of the work in the form of their own reflected image. In the multiple layers of the work, observers’ personal memories, their own reflection, that of the museum environment, the installation and the daylight become bound together into a situational work of art.” – Robert Seidel
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source: monopol-magazinde

Robert Seidel (geb. 1977) ist Künstler, Filmemacher und Kurator. Er begann zunächst ein Biologiestudium und schloss mit einem Diplom in Mediengestaltung an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar ab. Seine Projektionen, Installationen und Experimentalfilme wurden auf zahlreichen Internationalen Festivals, in Galerien sowie Museen gezeigt, wie dem Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerpen, ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Center Nabi Seoul, LACMA Los Angeles und MOCA Taipei. Seine Filme wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderen vom International Animation Festival Ottawa, der DEFA-Stiftung Berlin und der Jürgen-Ponto-Stiftung Frankfurt am Main. Seidel lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.”
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source: vimeo

Robert Seidel is a Berlin based artist, working in the field of experimental film, projection and video installation.
He began his studies in biology at Friedrich Schiller University Jena before transferring to the Bauhaus University Weimar to complete his degree in media design. His projections, installations and experimental films have been shown in museums like LACMA Los Angeles, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, ZKM Karlsruhe, Nabi Art Center Seoul, Museum of Image and Sound São Paulo and MOCA Taipeh as well as numerous of festivals (Prix Ars Electronica, onedotzero, DOTMOV, IFF Rotterdam, EMAF), galleries, magazines, books and TV programmes worldwide. His works have been honoured with various prizes, including the KunstFilmBiennale Honorary Award and Prize for Best Experimental Film at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
In his work Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of abstracted beauty through cinematographic approaches, as well as ones drawn from science. By the organic interplay of various structural, spatial and temporal concepts, he creates a continuously evolving complexity. Out of this multifaceted perspective emerges a narrative skeleton through which viewers connect to the artwork via the projection of their own personal memories.