Relation to larger context

Pieter Geenen/ Raphael Hefti/ Chris Cornish/ Valerie Mréjen/ Roni Horn/ James Turell/ Olafur Eliasson/ Bill Viola/ Gary Hill/ Harun Farocki/ Michael Snow/ Marie Jo Lafontaine/ Jan Fabre/ Mark Lewis/ Fiona Tan/ David Claerbout/ Douglas Gordon/ Bruce Naumann/ Tacita Dean/ Runa Islam/ video art/ structural film/

Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007

installation with hanged screen in space
reflections of the presentational mode
photograph of a dead tree enclosing a stone

Steve McQueen, Running Thunder, 2007

Nicole Hametner, There, 2012

Gillian Carnegie, Black Square, 2008

the contradiction between matter and image
black painting of trunks with textured paint
about the viewers position, his movement to reveal the image
challenge of depicting a night scene
do I have to simulate my vision at night?
made me think of my previous work in the forest
Carnegie also mixes genres, still life, landscapes, portrait > portraits next to landscapes

Gillian Carnegie, Black Square, 2008

Nicole Hametner, Wald, 2006

Mark Rothko/ Hiroshi Sugimoto

precise idea of the work's installation
necessity of a sensitive observer
sense of the unknown
transcendence of the individual
towards spiritual experience

Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, 1971

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pine Trees/ Coffin of Light, 2001

Black paintings

abstract expressionism
the sublime
representation of abscence

Pointillism of Georges Seurat

grid of dots
structure of the paper

Georges Seurat, The Artist's Mother, 1882