Videopainting: A dialogue
by Rojo Acebes, Juan Andres, M.F.A., UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK, 2009, 23 pages; 1467677

Abstract:

My video installations refer both to the pictorial quality of cinema and to the artist’s role as a voyeur. The videos depict simple processes or actions, such as eating, cleaning, or applying make-up. These actions are deeply interiorized and they recreate “true” moments of intimacy by capturing the natural way in which the body communicates. The emphasis is on the actions per se, the importance of the time spent performing them, and the emotional associations that they carry. The contrast between the qualities of the new media and my recent work’s content and form, has transformed my previous self-indulgent activity into a meditated exercise of nostalgia. Formally my body of work bridges the distance between a Spanish Baroque painterly aesthetics and the apparently opposed qualities of the digital medium.
 
AdviserBrandon Morse
SchoolUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
SourceMAI/ 47-06, p. , Sep 2009
Source TypeThesis
SubjectsFine arts
Publication Number1467677
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