Hannes Schupbach – The Trilogy: Spin / Verso / Contour (2001-2011) DVD5
on January 15th, 2022 at 13:20
The films of renowned Swiss artist Hannes Schupbach are lyrical, often transcendent portraits of people, spaces, and everyday life. A painter, performance artist, and expert on textile art, Schupbach weaves together light, gesture, and a keen attentiveness to the material world into meticulously structured compositions.
In the trilogy SPIN/VERSO/CONTOUR (2001-2011), a double portrait with the artist's parents as the main figures, he deploys his physical aesthetic in order to construct a work in a model-like way through the exploration of memory. Out of material from the first two films – brief gestures and fragmentary views that appear in varying temporal patterns – Schupbach realizes "a third, which changes and redefines the relationship between the other two. The projection lengths of images and black screen are never the same; they are continually varied, being attuned to the flow of the film, so that it virtually slips out of consciousness", as the art critic Maja Naef explains in the book.
DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 40 mins | 1.38 Gb + 3% rec
Language: none
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental, Short
