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Let's Make a Sandwich, 1978 - 2015
Loaned to
GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna
Description
digital video, 3 channel, 16 mm, colour, silent
Duration
Variable duration
No. Elements
1
Edition
Ed. 4/6 + 2AP
Object Type
video
Credits
© Pat O’Neill - Courtesy GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino - Proprietà della Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
The Artist
At the start of the 1960s, before digital software made techniques of moving image manipulation widespread and accessible, Pat O’Neill emerged on the Californian scene with his visionary experimentations with film, the montage of found materials and optical printing. Pre-empting the development of special effects in Hollywood studios by a few years, he gave rise to an original corpus of anti-narrative films, accompanied by distorted and estranging electronic music, stressing their perceptive ambiguities. For his effects, he would make use most of all of an optical printer, allowing him to return to the images once filmed and to manipulate them directly on the celluloid, producing double exposures and overexposures of blocks of colour which would wear down and hide the original contents. [...]
GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
Via Magenta, 31
10128 Torino