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In
Bertrand Lamarche’s work, the figure of the funnel is articulated
around an ensemble of omipresent shapes (cone, spiral, ellipsis),
phenomena (vortex, tornado, black hole) and notions (infinity, depth of
field, perspective).Cyclotunnel ( a movie set),
is a paper cone several metres in length, which calls to mind a
visual-capture instrument. Placed on a landscape-like polystyrene
relief, the object is surprising in scale : between model and prototype.
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small camera films inside the cone in real time : the image,
simultaneously projected in another room at La Galerie, and slightly
flattened by 16 :9 capture, displays a succession of rings with moving
shadows created a light variations as visitors pass between the objects
and its lighting. Using the cone capacity to considerably increase depth
of field – a common cinematographic effect- the artist conducts an
experiment of optical illusion : he metamorphoses the cone into the
tunnel of its interior, while introducing a kinetic dimension.
With no apparent beginning or end, Cyclotunnel refers to the idea of mise en abime : this artificial tunnel is a kind of « fourth dimension », where time and space seem able to strech ad infinitum. (text by Anne Lou Vicente, LA GALERIE, Noisy le Sec) |
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2008 - CYCLOTUNNEL
