Luca Antonucci
Off-Screen
サンフランシスコを拠点にDavid Kasprzakと共に<Colpa Press>を運営するアーティストLuca Antonucci。2022年2月26日-4月16日に、サンフランシスコのアートギャラリーBass & Reiner Galleryにて開催した展示"Off-Screen"を本のフォーマットに落とし込んだ作品。動きのない部屋のワンシーンをさまざまな映画からピックアップ、エコー写真などの印刷に使う医療用プリンターを用いて製作。元のストーリーからは抜け出した空間のイメージが、読む人それぞれに新しい何かを思い起こさせるような一冊◎
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Off-Screen at Bass Reiner Gallery from 2/26/2022 to 4/16/2022.
Filmmakers fight to keep every second that something isn’t “happening” on screen. They understand the power of negative space, darkness, quietude, stillness, but the gears of the Hollywood machine and the nature of the medium don’t allow absence to linger for long; things must keep moving and actors must be on screen.
In Off-Screen, Luca Antonucci has frozen these moments, elongating them into still images so that the viewer can develop a more complex relationship with the literal architecture of storytelling. Wielding a Sony Mavigraph color video printer, a tool historically used to print sonograms and other internal bodily explorations, he borrows unoccupied rooms from a variety of films in order to consider what they might tell us about our construction of shared realities.
These prints exist on the walls of the exhibition but also in the form of a book, forcing the images into a new sequence: a series of moments that are the equivalent of holding one’s breath. Confronting these spaces of non-action over and over again, the book and exhibition document the physical shape of film, separate from narrative.
72pp
8 by 5.75 inches
Digital Press with 2-color screen-printed cover
Perfect-bound with smyth-sewn signatures
Limited edition of 100
2022
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Off-Screen at Bass Reiner Gallery from 2/26/2022 to 4/16/2022.
Filmmakers fight to keep every second that something isn’t “happening” on screen. They understand the power of negative space, darkness, quietude, stillness, but the gears of the Hollywood machine and the nature of the medium don’t allow absence to linger for long; things must keep moving and actors must be on screen.
In Off-Screen, Luca Antonucci has frozen these moments, elongating them into still images so that the viewer can develop a more complex relationship with the literal architecture of storytelling. Wielding a Sony Mavigraph color video printer, a tool historically used to print sonograms and other internal bodily explorations, he borrows unoccupied rooms from a variety of films in order to consider what they might tell us about our construction of shared realities.
These prints exist on the walls of the exhibition but also in the form of a book, forcing the images into a new sequence: a series of moments that are the equivalent of holding one’s breath. Confronting these spaces of non-action over and over again, the book and exhibition document the physical shape of film, separate from narrative.
72pp
8 by 5.75 inches
Digital Press with 2-color screen-printed cover
Perfect-bound with smyth-sewn signatures
Limited edition of 100
2022