Sparkle and Fire (Glanz und Feuer)
\nLight and video installation with 5 to 10 monitors, 5 players, 5 films, 5 slide projectors
\nMonitors stand on the ground in a light semicircle, on the Ornamenta 1989 in steles, right next to each other and opposite
\nLength per movie: 10:12 min.
\nMusic: Brian Eno
\nCamera: Stephan Simon
\nPerformance and Assistance: Dietlinde Stroh
\nHeart object: Rolf Engel
\nThanks to: Fee Podgurski, Ursula Jordan, Deutsche Edelsteingesellschaft, Ruppenthal KG
\nProduction: 235media Cologne<\/p>\n
Means of payment for the journey to the afterlife.<\/p>\n
“SPARKLE & FIRE is a five monitor installation which employs alchemic imagery, some parts easily identifiable, others deeply mysterious. Combined with Brian Eno\u2019s distinctive soundtrack, SPARKLE & FIRE constitutes a shimmering spectacle.”
\nCamden Art Center, London 1990<\/p>\n
\u201cThe German artist Maria Vedder produced one of the highlights of the show. Sparkle and Fire was a five channel installation displayed on five floor level monitors forming an arc, projecting outwards to the viewer, in a large corner of the space. Behind the monitors, slide projectors described planes and lines with light slicing through the dimness. On the screens a continuous movement was created from right to left by the incredibly precise choreography under- taken during the shooting of the work. Every frame was always slowly becoming something else as its contents moved across the screen. A collage of feathers and smoke drifted, as the camera tracked, and became a jet of dust moving sidewards across first one monitor and then its neighbour and then its neighbour and so-on. When you looked back to the first monitors the process was repeated with another collection of objects or shimmering presences. Truly stunning and apparently seamless, the work was hypnotic, a real tour de force by one of Europe’s premier video artists. The ambient soundtrack, by Brian Eno echoed the visual properties of the work.\u201d
\nStephen Partridge, in: Variant issue 9 1991, about \u201cVideo Positive\u201d in Tate Gallery Liverpool 1991<\/p>\n
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