9 Sculpturen
- Date of creation : 1974
- Country : Belgium
- Duration : 00:07:00
- Technical characteristics : Black & white, Sound
- Artist - Author : Leo Copers
Description
“This work is first and foremost a performance, presented for the first time during the third edition of the Bruges Triennale. Copers then decided to replay it on camera, without the audience, who could experience it after the event. In this performance, nine found objects, treated as sculptural forms, are successively set in motion by the artist. Copers spins them in space at the end of a rope or an extension cord connected to the network (in the case of the fluorescent neon tube), before smashing them on the walls. The film is not a simple capture of the performance, the camera has a specific role. For each of the nine objects, close-ups and overviews alternate, thus exposing three different stages: the original object, its movement and, finally, the result of this impact. The theme of endangerment is recurrent throughout Leo Copers' multidisciplinary work. He will use video when it proves necessary. Thus the installation Mona Lisa (1975), confrontation between a reproduction of Da Vinci's painting (but here, the model is crying) and the filmed self-portrait of the artist, taking the same pose and wearing a moustache, reference Duchampian.” (Source: Jean-Michel Botquin)
- Date of event and/or date of diffusion : 10 Feb 1976 - 22 Feb 1976
- Editor : Production Filip Francis