September 7, 2007
Robert Whitman: Turning
September 7 - 29, 2007
Pace Wildenstein
In the current exhibition, Turning, Whitman explores the light, movement, and space of planetary experience. He began by gathering video footage from NASA which he has digitally manipulated and montaged to create moving imagery projected internally onto the surface of three plastic hemispheres: Earth (2006), Europa (2006), and Ganymede (2006). The works, which hang from the ceiling, measure between four and five feet in diameter. “Our generation is the first bunch of people that actually know the moon close-up. On the one hand that’s kind of wonderful and on the other it adds another area of stuff we can’t imagine…. another diving board to jump off into the unknown,” commented Whitman in the new interview.
Two other 2007 projection works, will also be on view in Turning. The first projection, Sun (2007), uses a movie generated by the YOHKOH (Japanese for sunbeam) satellite. The YOHKOH satellite was a project developed by the Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences to record images of the Sun using wavelengths of light not visible through the Earth’s atmosphere. In order to create Sun Whitman modified the rotation, speed and color of the images taken from YOHKOH, and then projected them onto manipulated fabric. The second work, Io (generated, like the first group, from NASA video footage) is similarly projected onto fabric, transforming the dimensionality of this Jovian moon from the spherical to the two dimensions of the torn, sewn, undulating surface of a cloth.
Pace Wildenstein
534 West 25th Street, NYC
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