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Jessica Faiss and Rollin Leonard Receive
“Moving Image Award”
Their Artworks “Solitude” and “360º /
18 Lilia” Were Selected for 53 Art Museum in Guangzhou,
China.
Moving Image art fair, is very pleased to announce
that artists Jessica Faiss, represented by
Galleri Flach, Stockholm, Sweden, and Rollin
Leonard, represented by Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn,
NY, are the recipients of the 2013 Moving Image Award. The
Moving Image Award funds the acquisition of artwork exhibited
at the fair for the permanent collection of contemporary art
institutions. For the 2013 London edition of Moving Image, the
selection was made by Mr. James Hu, curator for 53 Art Museum in
Guangzhou, China.
Jessica Faiss, Solitude,
2012, video, 8:40min loop. Courtesy the artist and Flach
Galleri.
Solitude by the Swedish/Swiss artist
Jessica Faiss, is one of two videos in which the beholder
follows a suggestive movement forward from the inside of a car
or a train, experiencing greyish or autumnal sceneries passing
by.
The
videos are based on motion and suggestive moments in
unpopulated areas in a Nordic environment and describe a state
of travelling in a continuous, meditative movement, which is a
recurrent theme in Jessica Faiss’ works. The artist describes
it as a way to capture a sense of vulnerability and loneliness
but also of peace and liberation. It’s about to face oneself
in an existential condition in which suggestive and repetitive
movements through landscapes creates conditions for such a
meeting to take place.
Although Jessica Faiss is an artist that works in
several different techniques the imagery is held together by a
visual purity and reduction. Thus emerges a natural dialogue
between the different expressions – video, photography,
collage and painting – which highlights different perspectives
on a ground state. The images in the videos are alternately
seductive and disturbing that attract and hold the viewer’s
gaze and perception. It is a visual language that refers more
to painterly qualities than to narrative and
narration.
Artist Bio
Jessica Faiss was born 1973 in Martigny,
Switzerland, but lives and works since many years in
Stockholm, Sweden. She is educated at the University College
of Crafts, Art and Design in Stockholm and has since then
participated in a series of exhibitions in Sweden and
internationally.
Rollin Leonard, 360º / 18
Lilia, 2013, Video, delivered as .mp4 and .mov, :36sec
loop. Courtesy the artist and Transfer
Gallery.
360° / 18 Lilia exploits the mathematical
concept of ‘highly composite numbers’ and what the artist dubs
‘visual elasticity’ (a common thread in Leonard’s work). The
number of photographs in this work totals 360, a highly
composite number and one with an extraordinarily large number
of divisors. This allowed for several timelines to be
abstracted evenly from the set and to optimize the time it
takes to syncopate again. The result is the face falls out of
and back into order in the fewest frames possible. Human
faces, bodies, and familiar objects are frequent subjects for
the artist partly because of our innate ability to recognize
the objects despite scrambling or distorting the image. A
face, a subject with high visual elasticity, is especially
resistant to being obscured or lost in pattern. Just as you
see faces in wood grain, clouds, and shadows, your mind easily
knits Lilia together even when fragmented.
Artist Bio
Rollin Leonard, born in 1984, lives and works in
Portland, Maine where he maintains a photography and
production studio. He has shown large-scale video
installations, photographic prints, and web-based work since
2004. His medium varies but his conceptual approach is
consistent – projecting the logic, meaning, or pattern from
one domain into another, often using the human body as a
vehicle to do so. Leonard earned a BA in Philosophy and a BA
in Painting from the University of Minnesota in
2007.
Leonard’s work has been shown at The Photographer’s
Gallery, London; Point Ephémère, Paris; Museum of the Moving
Image, New York; Essential Existence Gallery, Leipzig; Moving
Image Art Fair, New York & London; NADA Art Fair, New
York; and online at Fach & Asendorf Gallery.
ABOUT THE MOVING IMAGE
AWARD
Established in 2012 to help incorporate video and
film into the permanent collections of art institutions, the
inaugural Moving Image Award honored San Francisco collectors
Pamela and Richard Kramlich, who have supported contemporary
artists working in video, film, and new media through their
private collection and through the New Art Trust, a non-profit
organization they founded to advance the collection,
preservation, exhibition, and understanding of
technology-based art forms. The Kramlichs’ dedication has
inspired Moving Image to reach out to similarly-minded
supporters to expand the inclusion of video, film and new
media in museum collections globally.
Moving Image co-founders Murat Orozobekov and
Edward Winkleman noted that “presenting a global snapshot of
contemporary video art has been one of the goals of Moving
Image since its inception and having this opportunity to
collaborate with and connect artists with collections on an
international level is a testament to our mission. We are so
grateful to Mr. Qiangbo Li for his generous support of the
Moving Image Award, and have so enjoyed working closely with
Mr. James Hu of 53 Art Museum on the award this year. We feel
Moving Image London 2013 is perhaps the strongest presentation
of the fair to date, and we are delighted that Jessica Faiss
and Rollin Leonard have been selected as the recipient of the
2013 Moving Image Award.”
ABOUT 53 ART MUSEUM
53
Art Museum is located in Guangzhou City, China, situated in a
modern construction designed from repurposed rail car hangars,
the site combines the history of the old industrial atmosphere
of Guangzhou and the modern art pavilion aesthetic. Featuring
53 galleries within its walls, the museum is dedicated to the
experimental, pioneering, cross-border nature of international
contemporary art. Under the slogan of “Standing in Guangdong,
with eyes on the world”, 53 Art Museum devotes itself to
promoting contemporary art, especially video art.
ABOUT MOVING IMAGE
Moving Image art fair returns to The Bargehouse,
October 17-20, 2013, during the Frieze Art Fair in London.
Located within a short walking distance of Tate Modern, the
Bargehouse is adjacent to the legendary Oxo Tower on the South
Bank. Moving Image will be free to the public and open
Thursday – Saturday, October 17 – 19, 11 am – 7 pm, and on
Sunday, October 20, 11 am – 4 pm. An opening reception for
Moving Image will take place Thursday, October 11, 6 – 8 pm.
Moving Image was conceived to offer a unique viewing
experience with the excitement and vitality of a fair, while
allowing moving image-based artworks to be understood and
appreciated on their own terms. Moving Image London 2012 will
feature a selection of international commercial galleries and
non-profit institutions presenting single-channel videos,
single-channel projections, video sculptures, and other larger
video installations.
Moving Image
October
17-20, 2013
Bargehouse
Oxo
Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
South
Bank
London
SE1 9PH, UK
For more
information, contact Edward Winkleman at (44)
07887 817306 or email us at [email protected]
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