Sequences, chronophotography contemporary.

Sequences

In London, at the Gallery Furniture Works, was inaugurated Sequences , exhibition celebrating the art and history of chronophotography. Developed in the late nineteenth century mainly due to the contribution of Etienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, chronophotography is a photographic technique that uses a series of images in a sequence designed to depict and explore the idea of ​​space, time, and duration of movement motion. To celebrate the spirit of the ancient chronophotography, exhibit their works fifteen contemporary artists, including Tim Macmillan, a pioneer in the use of "Bullet Time", one of the most advanced cinematic techniques in "The Matrix"; Patrick Tarrant presents' work "Planet Usher", an archive created by the audiovisual artist's brother, who was born deaf and destined to become blind due to the effects of Usher syndrome, the work "Border" by Darren Almond shows a hypothetical traveler with two road signs the written Oswiecim (Polish name of Auschwitz). In addition to contemporary works, the exhibition presents the historical works of Marey, Muybridge and other early photographers, and optical devices typical of the Victorian era such as the kaleidoscope, the Kinetoscope, the magic lantern and the stereoscopic camera. Visitors can also use reproductions of these devices, create strips and disks of sequences of images and drawings, creating personal works. The exhibition's curator, Paul St George, commented on the event noting that in the last hundred years chronophotography has always developed on the path traced by the cinema, and that at this time, however, can emancipate themselves from it, returning to the fore thanks to the art digital and experimental photography. Undoubtedly, the media age, finally freeing the traditional concept of mimesis, the image seems to come to mirror and to exalt in its own immanence, just as some contemporary artists are rediscovering what a renewed reflection on chronophotography offers unprecedented stimuli in the context of 'aesthetic exploration of the media, particularly in the subjective perception of time and space, and in the' studium 'and' punctum 'of a photograph, or in what, according to Barthes does exist a picture "just, … (for me ) ".