Fotodokumentation von videocity 2018 "Tomas Eller: Cosmic Strings"

Photos by LIVINGPOOL PHOTOGRAPHY, 2018, copyright by Tomas Eller and videocity.bs.    

--- “Cosmic Strings” by Tomas Eller

videocity.bs is pleased to be presenting the Basel public with a Swiss premiere again.

In the person of Tomas Eller (born 1975 in Meran, lives in Vienna) curator Andrea Domesle has be introducing an exceptional artist who seeks spiritual engagement with mathematicians, physicists and natural scientists. He makes their results fruitful for his own art, in order to uncover the trail describing the peculiarities of the universe.  Space, time, matter, energy are the parameters of our surrounding heavens. Tomas Eller thematises them in his art and investigates them with aesthetic means.  

Beneath the superordinate title of "Cosmic Strings" videocity.bs unites several videos which came about during  the past 20 years – which will be shown on the eBoards of the Congress Center Basel, in the videocity.bs showcase at GLOBUS Basel, as well as on the screen of the Mediatheque of the FHNW College of Art and Design. For each separate location, the artist chose a special filmic composition and selected the most suitable films sequences. So each specific environment has its own peculiar surprises to offer.

Although it was created independently and with a view to an interior art space, it is exciting to experience how in the context of videocity.bs new challenges are placed upon the showcased video by the scale of the electronic advertising screens and the public space: What influence does bustling life on the Messeplatz trade fair plaza or the market place in general, with its many passers-by and dense traffic have on our perception of an autonomous work of art? The surrounding hustle and bustle amplifies the factors of movement and space within the videos. 

--- "Cosmic Strings II" results from the successful collaboration comprising "Cosmic Strings I. For the first time an artist is offered the unique opportunity  to create a temporary work of art for the screens and the huge LED band of the City Lounge of the new trade fair building, north and south hall, built by Herzog & de Meuron situated on the Messeplatz Square in Basel.

--- Notes on Design

videocity.bs is experimenting with a transfer from art into life and wants to bring home the influence of this process on perception.

Some of the videos have a soundtrack and are excerpts from other films by Tomas Eller. The videos utilized here in part can be viewed in their full length together with their original soundtracks in the FHNW media library for comparison.  Books also on show about the artist give an insight into his oeuvre.

Andrea Domesle (English translation: Christopher Haley Simpson)

Die Fotografien dokumentieren folgende Ausstellungen: Im Jahr 2018 legte die Kuratorin Andrea Domesle einen Schwerpunkt auf das Video-Oeuvre von Tomas Eller und zeigte ihn an mehreren Standorten mit zum Teil unterschiedlichen Präsentationszeiten.

--- Tomas Eller: Cosmic Strings I

31.05. –  05.08.2018 wurden die Videos mit einigen Ausnahmen täglich von 8 bis 24 Uhr zwischen Infos des eBoard Congress Center Basel, Messeplatz 21 beim Swissôtel Le Plaza gezeigt,

31.05. – 17.06.2018 täglich von 9 bis 23 Uhr im GLOBUS Basel-Schaufenster am Marktplatz 2

31.05. –  05.08.2018 Montag bis Freitag von 10 bis 13 Uhr auf dem Screen der Mediathek im Hochhaus der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, 8. OG, Freilager-Platz 1

--- Tomas Eller: Cosmic Strings II

  17.09. – 07.10.2018  

Screening mit einigen Ausnahmen und zwischen anderen Infos täglich von 8 bis 24 Uhr auf den eBoards und dem LED-Band der City Lounge der Neuen Messe, Halle Nord und Halle Süd, Messeplatz

Montag bis Freitag von 10 bis 13 Uhr auf dem Screen der Mediathek der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, 8. OG, Freilager-Platz 1.

Am Mittwoch, 3. Oktober um 17.30 sprach Tomas Eller über sein Werk auf Einladung von Reinhard Storz im Rahmen der ‚Art Talks‘ am Institut Kunst der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK), Freilagerplatz 1.

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Werktyp: Werk

Datenträger: HD Digital File

Audio: Ohne Ton

Dauer: 0:10:30

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Aspect Ratio: Sonstige