Rhizome | AFTER TIEPOLO

2013, HD video for large projection at the ceiling, 10:15, loop, color, stereo.

At the Wurzburg Residenz, M. Thyes filmed the ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Gyratory video sequences are the basis for an animated video collage. Tiepolo's catholic sky/heaven is slowly filled with stars and galaxies. Science and technology are developing, human production on earth increases. The buildings reach to the sky and hide the view on it: our modern knowledge of the infinite universe doesn't lead to a broader mind, as we are too busy with our complicated lives in our environment full of goods, buildings, means of transport and of communication.

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AFTER TIEPOLO

At the Wurzburg Residenz, M. Thyes recorded the famous 18th century ceiling fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Painterly, gyratory video sequences are the basis for an animated video collage. Tiepolo's catholic sky/heaven is slowly filled with planets, stars, and galaxies. Science and technology are developing, human production on earth increases: High-rises and power plants replace Tiepolo's merchants, artists, and craftspeople. The buildings reach to the sky and hide the view on it. Eventually, the smother of a cooling tower conceals the stars. The christian and europe-centric view of the world (earth and sky/heaven) is augmented, enriched, updated. But our modern knowledge of the infinite universe doesn't lead to a broader mind (looking at societies in general). We are too busy with our complicated lives in our environment full of goods, buildings, means of transport and of communication.

Thanks to: Guido Magnaguagno, Visarte Zurich, the Bavarian Palace Department at the Wurzburg Residenz, photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov

Work metadata

Year Created: 2013
Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday Sep 5th, 2013
Original Url: http://www.thyes.com/relations-polarities/after-tiepolo/index.html
Work Credits:
- myriam thyes, primary creator
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, I filmed his fresco at the Wurzburg Residience