Luca Antonucci
Off-Screen
San Francisco-based artist Luca Antonucci runs <Colpa Press> with David Kasprzak. A work that translates the exhibition "Off-Screen" held at the San Francisco art gallery Bass & Reiner Gallery from February 26th to April 16th, 2022 into a book format. Scenes of motionless rooms were picked up from various movies and produced using a medical printer used to print echo photographs. This is a book with an image of a space that is different from the original story, making each reader think of something new◎
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