| Melodrama no. 10 |
| Création sonore | audio | | 7'55'' | Italien / USA | 2005 |
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“ With elegant sophistication and underlying drama, Andrea Flamini taps into the world of short-wave radio transmission with a Morse code translation of a passage from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The work is a hybrid, addressing classical technology and prose jettisoned into a suggestive contemporary context of spatial communication, condensed language, distress and romance.
Entitled Melodrama No. 10, the piece is among a series of “melodramas” by Flamini, works that merge sound, drama, tragedy and intrigue via technically complex, streamlined works that permeate the environment on a conceptual and visceral level. The discreet presentation of Melodrama No. 10 – a beautiful white pedestal inscribed with the words ‘to the last syllable of recorded time’, a small pair of headphones, an antenna – belies the complex technical and poetic nuance Flamini achieves in subtle ways that reveal themselves upon multiple experiences with his works.
Communication, language, distress, poetics and the compression and measurement of time are among the various themes addressed in this work. Didactic sensibilities are balanced with romance, drama, and hints of playful irreverence. ”
Oz McGuire, curator
Lines translated to Morse code:
She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Andrea Flamini works with film/video and computational media.
His generative video/sound installations and broadcasting events engage in the de-construction of drama and its vectors, to test our perception of memory, space and narrative.
His work has been exhibited at the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany; Knitting Factory, New York; Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey; Manifesta 4, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia; Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Museo Fundacion Cristobal Gabarron, Valladolid, Spain; Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain; Sinakarinwirot Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Galeria De Arte Do Sesi, San Paulo, Brazil; and ICC, Tokyo, Japan, among other venues.
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