Keith Sonnier, Video Still Screen IV, 1973

1973

Medium

4 color screen print

Dimensions

70.5 × 91.5 cm

Edition

Edition of 50 (#33/50)

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156170

The Edition “Video Still Screen” (1973) is a film still from the video work “Color Wipe” (1973), created earlier in the same year. The limited 4-color screen print, published by Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, is an example of Sonnier's experimental work across various genre boundaries. In his video works he creates content-related and visual meta-levels, in which the aim is to expand the viewer’s experience. In “Color Wipe”, the artist mixes two videos, recorded simultaneously, and manipulates them with special effects by experimenting with color filters. The initiative of these images are color panels hanging in a film studio, which cameras scan in multiple vertical and horizontal movements, creating a flicker suggesting that the images themselves are monitors. These recorded sequences, manipulated images and technical disturbances, create a hybrid that can be understood both as a documentation of the creative act, as well as a scientific experiment. The screen-printing “Video Still Screen” achieves a painterly quality by way of the color and depth from the superimposition of four different foils, additional to the transformation and abstraction of the video image, which in turn refers to the origin of the image content. The video work “Color Wipe” is currently in the collection of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen.