Brigitte Kowanz, Flashback 4x3, 1988/2021

1988

Medium

Fluorescent lamps, cable, fluorescent paint and wood

Dimensions

90 × 90 cm

Edition

Ex. 1/3

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155780

In "Flashback 4x3" (1988/2021) Brigitte Kowanz reference her early works from the 1980s, in which she intensively explored the meaning of light as an artistic material and its potential for virtualization and develops them further. The light unfolds a boundary-dissolving atmosphere that creates an integrative relationship between recipient, work and space. Instead of a traditional static image, a virtualization occurs, which focuses on the volatility and instability caused by the propagation of light. Here, Kowanz refers to the aesthetics of disappearance in the sense of the French philosopher Paul Virilio and addresses the increase of speed and hecticness in a rapidly growing world in her work. With her Flashback series, she creates works that take up light as a technology of image creation and information, signaling their immateriality and ephemerality.