claudio tola
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Last update: Sept. 2024
claudio tola
selected works
collective/artist-run
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All rights reserved.
Last update: Sept. 2024
Moving image installation, mixed media, variable dimensions.
(Image credit: Jingfeng Shen)
Three pieces which tentatively question (digital) screens and images as objects, articulating and exposing through their juxtaposition the threshold/tension between their expected representational function and their presentation as material devices, insisting on grids, edges, frames, flatness/depth, positvie/negative, image/object.
Three found screens, drawn from the artists' daily practice of observation and then variously manipulated through a studio-based, sculptural and speculative approach, which turns them into ...
Made as self-standing studies between 2022 and 2023, together they give shape to a formal self-reflection on the practice of image-making itself - its objects, devices, fields of existence - as well as an urgent speculation on the pervasive yet often overlooked presence of screens and images.
A still image portaying two large presentation screens in an empty, corporate meeting room is continuously cropped, scaled, inverted, layered.
The two screens in the original image are frantically fragmented and multiplied, to the point of becoming an abstract, blinding sequence of flickering white and black squares.
Monochrome print on multiple sheets of A4 grey paper, 149x105x3cm (approx.)
An image of a stone paved road in construction found online is enlarged and printed on several sheets of paper, then installed a few centimeters from the floor. A spotlight hangs above it, burning its center into a white halo of reflected light.
A fractal superimposition of grids, multiple level of materiality: that of the paved road depicted in the image, that of the pixelated structure brought to sight by the large scale of the print, that of the pattern in which the sheets of paper are arranged, that - coincidental - of the tiled floor of the exhibition space. Screens, screens, screens
Digital video, 16:9, single-channel projection on 4:3 screen, dimensions and duration variable
The projection screen is an almost full monochrome field. Full white, full black. Only the edges of the projected image - curved by the camera wide-angle lens, exceeding the surface of the screen, distorted on the side walls - reveal the material setting of the video: a nightly walk around a mundane plastic tarp, set in place to hide what’s behind it. At each turn, the image is inverted.
Three screens (a study) was presented as part of Groot Rotterdams Atelier Weekend (21-22 Sept. 2024) in the artist home-studio space.