Ohne Bild

Ohne Bild

Production country: 
ch
Year: 
Edition: 
1992
Format: 
installation
"Ohne Bild" by Enrique Fontanilles, scan from the VideoFest ‘92 program booklet.

“The viewer will hardly have the chance to see the image of the hammer unless he has got strong nerves. ” Enrique Fontanilles installation is practically “without an image". The precious little object - the monitor - in the well, in the basin, seduces the voyeur while giving him a hard time. A single stroke of a hammer makes the membrane of a bass loudspeaker and the small LCD- Monitor lying on top of it jump. Sound and image coincide. This extraordinarily simple way of giving form to the link between sound and image makes sense and is sensual at the same time. It is fascinating in its consequential reduction and deterrent in its incalculable suddenness - just like the beauty of lightning and the terror of thunder. What is stronger - terror or curiousity? This sculpture makes every single person question his distance to the object of desire.

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