Christin Bolewski
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
painting process enables me to distance and to take a fresh approach to Western thinking and film and digital visualization practice, but at the same time using software tools that generally have been devised to create 2D and 3D artefacts from a Western cultural perspective avoids the pitfalls of echoing and imitating Chinese landscape painting too closely.
We have particularly appreciated the way you have created an harmonic combination between elements from Traditional imagery with contemporary digital techniques. We live in an age that’ s saturated with a vast multitude of image and video making methods with all the variations and modifications that come with them. How does it affect us psychologically when we see an image that looks like it was made over a hundred years ago, even if it was made yesterday?
‘ outside’ from which to see more clearly the values and preoccupation of Western culture. my two video scrolls apply this philosophical concept- in the sense of Francois Jullien the art work is a‘ detour via China’: Emphasizing to some extent philosophical as well as pictorial concepts and practical aspects of the Chinese
It depends. If the manipulation is really well done no one probably recognizes that it ' s a new image. Hence I make sure that there are some twists, clashes and collisions in the work so that it’ s quite obvious that it’ s a newly and digitally manipulated and arranged work. I think only if you allow the viewer to be aware of the manipulation you can make them think and be astonished but also more critical about what ' s possible today to do with imagery and sound. I think, only then you allow people to reflect the old content and relate it to their own situation today.
Elements from environment are particularly recurrent in your imagery and they never plays the role of a mere background. Do you see a definite relationship between nature and your work?
Yes I do. As I said before, travelling, the‘ other’ and the‘ foreign’ are important
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