ARE YOU A PAINTER (1-3) ?

of VINITSKY Yonatan

ISRAEL, 2003, :::::

Production : VINITSKY Yonatan
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Experimental, Computer graphics, Movement, Painting

Summary :
Are you a painter (1)? Is the first in the series of short videos about the relationship between video and painting and between light and camera.The first video in the series evokes the question about the function of the artist as an artist, and in the same time points the question to the spectator.

Are you a painter? (1) Deals with the subject of Light. Light as a phenomenon, transforming into movement and into image. It is the relationship between light-camera and between light-editing constituting the video, as a color stain or drawing rather than a formal zoom-in movement per se.

Are You A Painter? (2) Functions as a whole unit where actions are taking place with a beginning, middle and an end. The video interacts with the representation of the image and the painting by using an existing silk-screen containing text. The screen is introduced, painted and washed. Notions of cruelty, abuse and humiliation are prevalent by the use of water against the screen - when the act of washing and cleaning cross the borders of its function. The sound of the video is non-sync and uses rhythm, muting itself in a fixed length, creating a parallel narrative to the image.

Are You A Painter? (3) Devoted completely to the Gaze, both of the photographic image and the spectator. The video is constructed from two parts, The Study and The work. The study explores the possibility of the image and the video process, creating anticipation for the second part which functions more as an ‘anti-climax’ and as an anti-video image.
Are You A Painter? (3) Tries to evoke the suspension between time, images and the spectator.

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