Angel, 2004
Slide projection with sound
Slide projector, 80 slides, prism, motor, soundtrack
Photo: Michaela Melián
Angel, 2004
Slide projection with sound
Slide projector, 80 slides, prism, motor, soundtrack
Photo: Michaela Melián
Angel, 2004
Slide projection with sound
Slide projector, 80 slides, prism, motor, soundtrack
Photo: Michaela Melián
Catalyst for the installation Angel was Ignaz Günther’s Guardian Angel in the Bürgersaal Church, Munich. The sculpture was photographically “orbited” and the resulting slides projected via a rotating prism so that their images circle the walls. The photographed sculpture is thus split up into the colors of the spectrum as a fragmented figure of light. The subject of the installation is the angel, the supernatural, androgynous being representing the highest form of creation bearing personal traits. Not that the angel is bodiless, rather its body, composed of light and ether, is an astral phenomenon. The track Angel accompanying the slides is based on excerpts from compositions by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
The work is part of the group of works on rococo sculptures: Ignaz Guenther House (2002), Angel (2004), and Sebastian (2007).
Engel, 2004
Machine-sewn threads, paper
56 x 42 cm
Photo: Michaela Melián
Engel, 2004
Ink, machine-sewn threads, paper
56 x 42 cm
Photo: Michaela Melián
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