The Flip Book Show
Posted by ryan griffis on July 13, 2005 10:21 pm
http://www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de/e/ausstellung/presse/index.html
DAUMENKINO
The Flip Book Show
A flip book is a book that becomes a cinema for a short space of time;
it is a sequence of images that reveals its narrative as you look at
it, an object that you have to touch in order to get it to tell its
story.
In the worlds first comprehensive exhibition on the subject, the
thematic and contextual convergence of art, animation and film in the
20th Century is charted, placing the flip booka well-known and yet
scantly regarded mediumsquarely in the public eye. Simultaneously both
book and pocket cinema, picture sequence and narrative, the flip book
has elicted wide-ranging artistic interpretation over the years and
provided fascinating insights into the anatomy of the moving image ever
since it was patented in 1868 by the English printer John Barnes
Linnett.
Included in the presentation are flip books both from the past and the
present, experimental films and artists books, which in turn derive
their effect from the sequential order of their pictures and as such,
share a certain commonality with the flip book by virtue of their
mediumnot every flip book can immediately be recognized as such.
Harnessing its formal parameters, artists have regarded the medium as a
challenge, used it and interpreted it anew.
The exhibition comprises flip books gathered from more than 170 artists
and filmmakers and divides them up into different categories: from
monographic retrospectives (Ruth Hayes/George Griffin), surveys of
particular forms of image (portrait/short film), thematic references to
the history of erotic animation, specific eras (1960s, 1970s) to
current artistic positions which extend the range of the flip book.
The vast majority of the flip books can actually be touched or
thumbed-through by visitors to the exhibition. In addition,
alternative methods of presentation have been developed to accommodate
rare or historic specimens focusing on the specific attributes of the
flip book, such as its diminutive size and the way it is individually
perceived.
The main focus of the exhibition is upon flip books by contemporary
artists and filmakers, such as John Baldessari, Robert Breer, Tacita
Dean, Elliott Erwitt, Julia Featheringill, Jarg Geismar, Volker
Gerling, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Keith Haring, Sabine Hecher,
William Kentridge, Sigrun Kohler, Eric Lanz, Jonathan Monk, Bruce
Nauman, Stephanie Ognar, Tony Oursler, Dieter Roth, Miguel Rothschild,
Jack Smith, Beat Streuli, Andy Warhol and Janet Zweig amongst others.
The exhibition is curated by Christoph Schulz and Daniel Gethmann. The
Cologne architect Meyer Voggenreiter is responsible for the exhibition
design. There will be an extensive catalogue and DVD to accompany the
exhibition published by snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne.
DAUMENKINO
The Flip Book Show
A flip book is a book that becomes a cinema for a short space of time;
it is a sequence of images that reveals its narrative as you look at
it, an object that you have to touch in order to get it to tell its
story.
In the worlds first comprehensive exhibition on the subject, the
thematic and contextual convergence of art, animation and film in the
20th Century is charted, placing the flip booka well-known and yet
scantly regarded mediumsquarely in the public eye. Simultaneously both
book and pocket cinema, picture sequence and narrative, the flip book
has elicted wide-ranging artistic interpretation over the years and
provided fascinating insights into the anatomy of the moving image ever
since it was patented in 1868 by the English printer John Barnes
Linnett.
Included in the presentation are flip books both from the past and the
present, experimental films and artists books, which in turn derive
their effect from the sequential order of their pictures and as such,
share a certain commonality with the flip book by virtue of their
mediumnot every flip book can immediately be recognized as such.
Harnessing its formal parameters, artists have regarded the medium as a
challenge, used it and interpreted it anew.
The exhibition comprises flip books gathered from more than 170 artists
and filmmakers and divides them up into different categories: from
monographic retrospectives (Ruth Hayes/George Griffin), surveys of
particular forms of image (portrait/short film), thematic references to
the history of erotic animation, specific eras (1960s, 1970s) to
current artistic positions which extend the range of the flip book.
The vast majority of the flip books can actually be touched or
thumbed-through by visitors to the exhibition. In addition,
alternative methods of presentation have been developed to accommodate
rare or historic specimens focusing on the specific attributes of the
flip book, such as its diminutive size and the way it is individually
perceived.
The main focus of the exhibition is upon flip books by contemporary
artists and filmakers, such as John Baldessari, Robert Breer, Tacita
Dean, Elliott Erwitt, Julia Featheringill, Jarg Geismar, Volker
Gerling, Gilbert & George, Douglas Gordon, Keith Haring, Sabine Hecher,
William Kentridge, Sigrun Kohler, Eric Lanz, Jonathan Monk, Bruce
Nauman, Stephanie Ognar, Tony Oursler, Dieter Roth, Miguel Rothschild,
Jack Smith, Beat Streuli, Andy Warhol and Janet Zweig amongst others.
The exhibition is curated by Christoph Schulz and Daniel Gethmann. The
Cologne architect Meyer Voggenreiter is responsible for the exhibition
design. There will be an extensive catalogue and DVD to accompany the
exhibition published by snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne.
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