Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
un artiste en mouvement
English translation:
an artist in motion
Added to glossary by
Helen Shiner
Jun 4, 2009 08:44
15 yrs ago
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French term
un artiste en mouvement
French to English
Art/Literary
Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
fine arts
Melik Ohanian is the artist
Proposed translations
(English)
3 +5 | an artist in motion | Helen Shiner |
4 | an artist in evolution | Sorina Grecu |
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Jun 18, 2009 08:05: Helen Shiner Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
+5
14 mins
Selected
an artist in motion
Motion as associated with this artist:
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/project/ohanian_projec...
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Note added at 16 mins (2009-06-04 09:00:44 GMT)
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Melik Ohanian : Seven Minutes Before
16|11|2006 - 14|1|2007
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The South London Gallery is pleased to present Seven Minutes Before, 2004, an epic video installation and first solo exhibition in the UK, by French-Armenian artist Melik Ohanian. Ohanian has received international acclaim for works in a broad range of media that address issues of personal autonomy and identity, access to territory and information, as well as conceptions of time in today’s global culture. With a background in documentary film-making and cinema, Ohanian expands on research into places, people and events to create poetic installations and interventions. This exhibition has been extended until 14 January 2007.
Filling the length of the South London Gallery’s exhibition space, Seven Minutes Before is an immersive, dream-like video work shown on seven screens. A model city built in a mountain stream, a caged wolf, wandering musicians and mystic symbols all appear in the landscape at dawn to create a sense of magic and other-worldliness. Replete with references to cinema and contemporary art, music and cosmology, Ohanian brings together seemingly disconnected events into a cohesive whole. The extraordinary attention to detail in the scenography and construction of the images has an astonishing impact when the events on all seven videos come together around a single dramatic explosion. Each made in a single continuous take, the seven videos follow the journey of the camera roving across a 2km stretch of a valley floor in southern France. This highly choreographed and experimental approach to film-making proposes an alternative form of editing occurring in space rather than time.
To complement the installation will be a special presentation of Ohanian’s Invisible Film, 2005, in a cinema auditorium. Invisible Film documents a projection in the California deserts, of Punishment Park, 1971, an independent movie banned in the UK as well as the USA for its anti-war stance following military action in Vietnam. Without a screen the image is projected unseen into the distance on the location in which the film was made. By overlaying fact and fiction, Ohanian comments on today’s political situation.
Top: Melik Ohanian, 'Hidden', 2005. Screen 150 x 200 cm, videoprojection DVcam on DVD, coding, informatic computer and monitor, duration 60 min. Selected recording, Lambda print mounted on aluminium, 124 x 200 cm.
Bottom: Melik Ohanian, 'Seven Minutes Before', 2004. 7 synchronized video projections with surround soundtrack, 28 speakers and 7 bass modules, digital beta on DVD, duration 7 x 21 min, 1200 x 2800cm.
http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/exh/exhibition.jsp?id...
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-06-04 10:22:18 GMT)
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Though really the placement of this phrase would assist in knowing how appropriate my suggested translation would be.
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-06-04 10:30:05 GMT)
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For me the artist's work is about the passage of time or temporality, at least in good part.
http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/project/ohanian_projec...
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Note added at 16 mins (2009-06-04 09:00:44 GMT)
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Melik Ohanian : Seven Minutes Before
16|11|2006 - 14|1|2007
Back to list
The South London Gallery is pleased to present Seven Minutes Before, 2004, an epic video installation and first solo exhibition in the UK, by French-Armenian artist Melik Ohanian. Ohanian has received international acclaim for works in a broad range of media that address issues of personal autonomy and identity, access to territory and information, as well as conceptions of time in today’s global culture. With a background in documentary film-making and cinema, Ohanian expands on research into places, people and events to create poetic installations and interventions. This exhibition has been extended until 14 January 2007.
Filling the length of the South London Gallery’s exhibition space, Seven Minutes Before is an immersive, dream-like video work shown on seven screens. A model city built in a mountain stream, a caged wolf, wandering musicians and mystic symbols all appear in the landscape at dawn to create a sense of magic and other-worldliness. Replete with references to cinema and contemporary art, music and cosmology, Ohanian brings together seemingly disconnected events into a cohesive whole. The extraordinary attention to detail in the scenography and construction of the images has an astonishing impact when the events on all seven videos come together around a single dramatic explosion. Each made in a single continuous take, the seven videos follow the journey of the camera roving across a 2km stretch of a valley floor in southern France. This highly choreographed and experimental approach to film-making proposes an alternative form of editing occurring in space rather than time.
To complement the installation will be a special presentation of Ohanian’s Invisible Film, 2005, in a cinema auditorium. Invisible Film documents a projection in the California deserts, of Punishment Park, 1971, an independent movie banned in the UK as well as the USA for its anti-war stance following military action in Vietnam. Without a screen the image is projected unseen into the distance on the location in which the film was made. By overlaying fact and fiction, Ohanian comments on today’s political situation.
Top: Melik Ohanian, 'Hidden', 2005. Screen 150 x 200 cm, videoprojection DVcam on DVD, coding, informatic computer and monitor, duration 60 min. Selected recording, Lambda print mounted on aluminium, 124 x 200 cm.
Bottom: Melik Ohanian, 'Seven Minutes Before', 2004. 7 synchronized video projections with surround soundtrack, 28 speakers and 7 bass modules, digital beta on DVD, duration 7 x 21 min, 1200 x 2800cm.
http://www.southlondongallery.org/docs/exh/exhibition.jsp?id...
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-06-04 10:22:18 GMT)
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Though really the placement of this phrase would assist in knowing how appropriate my suggested translation would be.
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Note added at 1 hr (2009-06-04 10:30:05 GMT)
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For me the artist's work is about the passage of time or temporality, at least in good part.
Peer comment(s):
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George C.
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Thanks, solarstone
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French Foodie
: makes sense, tying in with "motion pictures"
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Thanks, French Foodie
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agree |
Marianna Tucci
2 hrs
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Thanks, Marianna
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agree |
Marta Scott
2 hrs
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Thanks, Marta
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agree |
JWood&Co (X)
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Thanks, Nils
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
4 mins
an artist in evolution
un peu de contexte serait tres utile
je dirais, if this is the meaning in context
je dirais, if this is the meaning in context
Example sentence:
... Derek Beggs, An Artist in Evolution
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