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La visione, 2018
digital film loop, ProRess 422 HQ, sound
1'36'' loop
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs
'La visione' is the last of Marijke van Warmerdam's film loops, made during an extended stay in Rome. One might describe the motif in this work as appearing and disappearing. The camera plays with the aura of bright sunlight behind the statue of an angel. About her work, the artist says: “It’s important to me that it moves in some way or another, either literally or figuratively. I’m looking for clarity, too – for a simple image that intensifies, for example, through repetition.” Van Warmerdam is internationally acclaimed for her short film loops. Always questioning the world around her, the artist captures her observations in artworks that are sometimes referred to as laboratory set-ups of reality. The camera and the sun play with each other in La Visione. Or does the statue of ‘winged Victoria’ in front of the idiosyncratic ‘typewriter building’ on Piazza Venezia keep moving in and out of the light? Is the viewer in the eye of the storm, with the world swirling and twisting around it? Something similar happens in Vista. Here, van Warmerdam films from a car passing an aqueduct near the Cinecittà studios. The sun seems to appear from under the arches. It is reminiscent of Bzzzzzz, where the dance of disappearance and appearance creates myriad light effects. It is a phenomenon that is not visible to the naked eye, but that appears only in the photographic image. A pure form of filmic magic. Dana Linssen (IN DUTCH) De camera en de zon spelen met elkaar in La visione. Of schuift het standbeeld van de ‘gevleugelde Victoria’ voor het karakteristieke ‘typmachinegebouw’ op de Piazza Venezia steeds in en uit het licht? Staat de kijker in het oog van de storm en wervelt de wereld daarom- heen? Iets vergelijkbaars gebeurt in de film Vista, letterlijk ‘uitzicht’. Hier filmt Van Warmerdam vanuit een auto langs een aquaduct in de buurt van de Cinecittà-studio’s. De zon lijkt onder de bogen tevoorschijn te komen. Het doet denken aan Bzzzzzz waarin de dans van verdwijnen en verschijnen zorgt voor talloze lichteffecten. Het is een fenomeen dat niet met het blote oog te zien is, maar alleen in het fotografische beeld ontstaat. Een pure vorm van filmische magie. Dana Linssen
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