Imi Knoebel is a German artist I discovered during a visit to the Hessel Museum, at Bard in New York. He is primarily known for his paintings, and sculptures. Knoebel is also noted as being good friends with Blinky Palermo - whose retrospective is currently the main attraction at the Hessel Museum. However, the primary body of his work being shown in the main gallery, is a series of thirty plus images which were apart of his projection series.
The image to the left is a sample, but does not do the photographs shown in the museum justice. In his images Imi plays with reality - in photographing desired spaces and playing with casted light which seems natural, drawn into fantasy by a projection in the room. At some instances the falsification is almost unnoticeable, in others it is so apparent the images turn more into abstract paintings. All the while though Knoebel keeps the viewer rooted to the material by showing the notches in the film & number count. Imi experimented with a couple of projection series, I believe his first two were with standard film Photography. The later images where pulled from a video that Imi Knoebel had recorded and stilled. I believe the example image is from the video series. The images shown at the Hessel Museum are photographs shot from a standard camera. They are amazing.
Sounds awesome. And sounds a little like James Turrell's early projection work. Check that out!
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ReplyDeleteThat's funny you mention James Turrell. I was planning on doing a presentation on him in Sculpture next week. I really enjoy his recent work, like the piece that is still up at PS1 (I believe), where he creates a space and cuts open the ceiling for people to look out at the sky. I think it's an interesting way to play with the picture plain. Personally, I read it as sculptural photography. I haven't done all the research yet, so I haven't seen his projection work - I look forward to seeing it.
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