Thu January 30, 2014
Memories and Light-Photopaintings and videos commemorating the Holocaust
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at Italian Cultural Institute
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The photopainting installation is a series of coloured images shot sequentially amidst 2715 grey pillars evoking the headstones of murdered Jews. The succession of each soft image symbolizes quick meetings and encounters between people pursuing their own paths in a moment that is timeless and in a place without an entrance or exit (sense of being lost), and evokes a disturbing sense of the Nazi regime’s unyielding control through the rippling motion of an uneven pavement disrupting the solid structure. The disorienting effect through the camera lens is intended. The visitor is alone, facing the memory of the genocide in an ephemeral place.
The video presents surreal images of people walking through the stelae, appearing and disappearing like ghosts conjured by memory in evocative black and white, with a background of wistful Klezmer music, as Light and colour slowly take over the scene.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - Friday, March 28, 2014
Opening: 6:30 PM. On view: Mon-Fri 10-4.FREE ADMISSION
To register for the exhibition opening, please visit our Website.
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The video presents surreal images of people walking through the stelae, appearing and disappearing like ghosts conjured by memory in evocative black and white, with a background of wistful Klezmer music, as Light and colour slowly take over the scene.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - Friday, March 28, 2014
Opening: 6:30 PM. On view: Mon-Fri 10-4.FREE ADMISSION
To register for the exhibition opening, please visit our Website.
The photopainting installation is a series of coloured images shot sequentially amidst 2715 grey pillars evoking the headstones of murdered Jews. The succession of each soft image symbolizes quick meetings and encounters between people pursuing their own paths in a moment that is timeless and in a place without an entrance or exit (sense of being lost), and evokes a disturbing sense of the Nazi regime’s unyielding control through the rippling motion of an uneven pavement disrupting the solid structure. The disorienting effect through the camera lens is intended. The visitor is alone, facing the memory of the genocide in an ephemeral place.
The video presents surreal images of people walking through the stelae, appearing and disappearing like ghosts conjured by memory in evocative black and white, with a background of wistful Klezmer music, as Light and colour slowly take over the scene.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - Friday, March 28, 2014
Opening: 6:30 PM. On view: Mon-Fri 10-4.FREE ADMISSION
To register for the exhibition opening, please visit our Website.
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The video presents surreal images of people walking through the stelae, appearing and disappearing like ghosts conjured by memory in evocative black and white, with a background of wistful Klezmer music, as Light and colour slowly take over the scene.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - Friday, March 28, 2014
Opening: 6:30 PM. On view: Mon-Fri 10-4.FREE ADMISSION
To register for the exhibition opening, please visit our Website.
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Italian Cultural Institute
814 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
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