[Frameworks] º°¨*¨°º Directors Lounge - The Destructive Power of Happiness by R. Iacono - Z-Bar -Thu 23-9-10 º°¨*¨°º

[Klaus W. Eisenlohr]

Directors Lounge presents:

The Destructive Power of Happiness
Video and Film Works by
Riccardo Iacono
Thursday, 23 September 2010
21:00

Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte



Riccardo Iacono
The Destructive Power of Happiness

Riccardo Iacono, London-based artist and 
filmmaker, presents a selection of films and 
video from three different bodies of work: 
abstract videos, hand-painted films and 
performance tapes (produced between 1993-2007).

"I like the destructive power of fire", a friend 
stated to Riccardo. It became the source for the 
title of the show in Berlin. Riccardo's fire 
might be his anarchistic disposition to destroy 
static concepts. However, he does not avoid the 
pains, the exhaustive efforts it takes to make 
art from "happiness".

In his process of working with film, the painted 
film became the silent musical score for the 
making, the re-photographing of the film. By 
means of an optical printer, he developed a way 
to have light reflected from the 3-dimensional 
surface of the paint, while at the same time 
still illuminating it from the backside. Although 
such animation techniques usually are tedious 
work, Riccardo already tried to achieve some 
immediacy while printing film to film. This urge 
for directness, and a need for improvisation and 
contact with people have possibly let to his more 
recent body of work: "Shooqui". The whole series 
of videos, which involves throwing peas or 
clothes, is the opposite of camera-less film. The 
artist holds the camera, aiming and tracking the 
prospective trajectory of the object being thrown 
by his other hand. The body connection between 
holding and throwing leads to a compulsive and 
circular movement of the camera when throwing 
larger objects. "It is almost like the recoil 
action of a gun upon firing."
(Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr)

Programme
From Memory 1994-2003 16mm, colour silent 15.00
Open 1994/2003 16mm optical sound 2.30
Fuzzy Lover 2003 16mm B/W silent 2.10
Pea Video 2006 DV colour Stereo 2.00
More Light 2004 DV colour Stereo 4.55
Recess 2007 DV colour stereo 1:00
P-Sample 1 2006 DV colour Stereo 2:45
Play 2001 DV colour stereo 3:50
The Electric Garden 2004 DV colour Stereo 5.55
Radiator 1994 DV colour stereo 4:15
Roadside Mix 2006 DV Colour stereo 1:31
Cold Tape 2000 DV colour stereo 1.11
Kinky 2006 DV Colour stereo 1:45
Walk 2001 DV Colour stereo 3:30
A Lecture In Throwing A Pea 2006 DV colour Stereo 1.00
Universe Energies Sustain Us 2002 DV colour Stereo 14.00
Elephant 2007 DV colour Stereo 7:30

Artist-Links:
http://www.riccardoiacono.co.uk
http://www.axisweb.org/openfrequency/riccardoiacono

Press Links:
http://www.directorslounge.net
http://directorsloungenews.tumblr.com/post/1138912680/iacono

More detailed program infos:
http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesRiccIacono.html

http://www.z-bar.de
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Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Osnabrücker Str. 25, D-10589 Berlin, Germany



email:			klaus at richfilm.de
and film production:		http://www.richfilm.de


phone:			int.- 49 - 30 - 3409 5343 (BERLIN)
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