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David Claerbout (born 1969, Kortrijk, Belgium)[ citation needed ] is a Belgian artist. His work combines elements of still photography and the moving image. [1]
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David Claerbout (born 1969, Kortrijk, Belgium)[ citation needed ] is a Belgian artist. His work combines elements of still photography and the moving image. [1]
Claerbout studied at Nationaal Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp from 1992-1995. He trained as a painter, but became more and more interested in time through investigations in the nature of photography, the still and the moving image (Bergson's duree echoed in Gilles Deleuze Cinema 1 and Cinema 2).
David Claerbout is "best known for large-scale moving and still imagery that deals with the passage of time". [2]
In early works, such as Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia 1932 made in 1998 and the last in a series, he presents an old, black and white photograph as a large, mute projection.
In Vietnam, 1967, near Duc Pho (Reconstruction after Hiromishi Mine) (2001) time is suspended as an airplane caught by the camera moments before its crash, floats, the sunlight gently moving over a green and hilly landscape. In the book Visible Time, David Green writes:
“What one actually experiences or indeed what one sees in this work, is not the conflation of photography and film but, a conjuncture of the two mediums in which neither ever loses its specificity. We are thus faced with a phenomenon in which two different mediums co-exist and seem to simultaneously occupy the same object. The projection screen here provides a point of intersection for both the photographic and filmic image.” [3]
With works such as Villa Corthout (2001) and Piano Player (2002), Claerbout’s work moves towards forms of narratives to describe ‘moments in time’ within the moving image, taking a more cinematic dimension.
In the Bordeaux Piece (2004) actors repeat a given dialogue and a set of given movements, deconstructing cinematic time. It centers on a conversation between a couple that is repeated over and over in different parts of a 1996 Bordeaux house designed by the architect Rem Koolhaas. [4] The piece is in fact a 14 hours film made out of 70 shorter films shot at 10 minutes intervals throughout the day. The narrative slowly collapses, giving way to the movement of the sun over the landscape, architecture and people, thus creating a different temporality. One protagonist is played by Josse De Pauw, who helped Claerbout write the script. [5]
In Sections of a Happy Moment (2007), Claerbout seems to ‘dissect’ a moment in the life of a Chinese family in the courtyard of a nondescript estate. A group of people are gathered around a ball suspended mid-air, all the faces turned towards it, smiling happily. Over the course of 25 minutes, this moment in time is analyzed from a multitude of different angles and perspectives, allowing the viewer an omnipresence that is paradoxical. The fragmentation of time in this piece, through freeze – frames of the same moment, creates 'visible duration'. [6]
In Sunrise (2009), Claerbout presents an 18-minute work in near-darkness, accentuating the dim tones by projecting the film on to a grey surface. For nearly the entire film, a housemaid goes about her chores in the muted light of pre-dawn, finally departing the house and cycling through a dimly-lit landscape, accompanied by Sergei Rachmaninoff's Vocalise (1912).
Set on the coastline of Brittany, France, The Quiet Shore (2011) is a 36-minute black-and-white film capturing scenes that range from moments of minute detail to panoramic expanses of coastal landscape. The viewer experiences, frame by frame, a single moment from a multitude of different perspectives and viewpoints. [7]
Claerbout participated in the DAAD Berlin Artist Program in 2002–2003.[ citation needed ] In 2007, he showed five works at the Centre Pompidou in Paris; the exhibition later toured to the List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, to the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver, to the De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art in Tilburg, Holland, and to the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo. [1] Other solo exhibitions include ‘Diese Sonne strahlt immer’, Vienna Secession (2012); ‘David Claerbout: Architecture of Narrative’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011); ‘The Time That Remains’, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (2011); and ‘uncertain eye’, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2010).
Selected Monographs/ Exhibition Catalogues
Claerbout has been awarded the Prize of the Günther-Peill-Stiftung (2010).
Single Channel Video Installation, Colour, Silent, 18’44”
Single Channel Video Installation, Black and White, Silent, 10’
Single Channel Video Installation, Black and White, Silent, 10’
Interactive Video Installation, Black and White, Silent
4 Light boxes, Cibachrome, Black and White
Video Installation, Colour, Silent, 3’30”
5 - Channel Video Installation, Black and White, Mono Sound, 25’
Video Installation, Colour, Silent, 36’
Single Channel Video Installation, Colour, Dolby Surround Sound, 7’
Double Screen Interactive Video Installation, Black and White, Silent
Single Channel Video Installation, Colour, Dual Mono Sound, 13:43’
Single Channel Video Installation, Black and White, Stereo Sound, 30’19”
Single Channel Video Installation, Black and White, Stereo Sound (Random Muzac), 25’57”
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