bouquet

Director: Karø Goldt    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Karø Goldt, born in 1967 in Günzburg. 1998 Graduation from the School for Artistic Photography, Vienna. 2000 Grant from the BKA Vienna for the Cité des Arts, Paris. 2003 Grant from the BKA Vienna for New York. 2004 AIR 05 grant from the Medienturm, Graz and Museumsquartier, Vienna. 2005 Project grant from the BKA Vienna for unilateral. Project grant from the Berlin Senate for BOUQUET and floral. Works in public collections: K21, Düsseldorf; Anker Versicherung, Vienna; NBK, Berlin; Medienturm, Graz; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Since 1998, participation in numerous exhibitions and festival screenings. website: www.karoegoldt.de

Country: Germany

Year: 2006

Synopsis: Replacing the traditional cinema curtain, bouquet by Karø Goldt will precede the screenings of five of this year´s Wavelength programmes. Both a video installation and a work for cinema, bouquet is elegant and seductive act of sublimation, which transforms a still life of flowers onto a wondrous digital abstraction. Its slow, rapturous rhythms cycle through various colour combinations, each offering continuous, blending delight. (Andrea Picard, TIFF 07) Karø Goldt´s film bouquet is 100 minutes long, and shows the reduction of a bunch of flowers to its most basic visual form: colour, which slowly shimmers, murmurs and changes, like a speeded up passage of time. ( Laura McLean-Ferris, Artreview) A request for slowness and an attention to details. The representation of flowers, the most famous being those from Breughel, often takes on the form of a bouquet. They are an important source of inspiration in the presented film. The bouquet stands for diversity, wealth, the universal and the abundance, the entire life and human importance in a bunch of flowers. In bouquet order and symbolic meaning tell the story of the loss of innocence. Originating from digital photography the shape of the petals overcome their form by translating their color values.

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