bogdan achimescu / works / the central physiognomy registry / pavilion view


The Romanian Pavilion, The 49th Venice Biennale, 2001.

Achimescu shows five (four after hardware crash) video projections of synchronized Quicktime TM movies. Hardware setup and Macromedia Director TM shell designed by Alexandru Patatics and Sebastian Bertalan . This project is part of the Context Network, curated by Patatics and Bertalan .

The movies present faces of people known and unknown to Achimescu, animated in a slow metamorphosis. From left to right: 1. Miklosi Denes, 2. Zofia Krzyzanowska, 3. Vasile Ernu, 4. Miklosi Denes again