LandE scape
Christin Bolewski
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
emotion enormously and puts them into a state of flow. In my video paintings, I aim to create a meditative contemplative situation so that the audience calms down and takes time to reflect on those conflicting issues that the artwork presents: there is destruction of nature presented as poetic beauty. I love working with those contrasting effects in my work as I think they create very powerful experiences for the viewer. In Journeys in Travel, a nonlinear database film narrative that I created in 2012, I particularly investigated the relationship of the viewers experience and film rhythm as a tool to modify it by creating a computer algorithm that was controlling the film flow based on the different emotional or perceptional states that individual clips in the database would evolve in the viewer. There is for example, different engagement if there is text included into an image or if there is music attached to it. Words or letters are being processed in other parts of the brain than music is. I am using this constantly when making decisions in my artwork and it is essential for the editing process.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Christin. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
I ' m currently working on a third video painting related to Eastern landscape painting tradition. The third one is an investigation of the cityscape instead of the landscape. It makes references to an old Chinese hand scroll titled Along the River During the Qingming Festival by the Song dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan. It captures the daily life of people and the landscape of on old Chinese capital. The painting is considered to be one of the most renowned works among all Chinese paintings and it has been called sometimes " China ' s Mona Lisa." The piece has been re-interpreted by a number of court artists of subsequent dynasties each following the overall composition and the theme of the original but differing in details and technique. For the World Expo 2010 presented at the
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