FW: Oskar Fischinger - Raumlichtkunst

[Rita Evans]

Still tickets left for tonight (I won't make it :-()

There is a big display of his work just opened on level 5 at TM.

rita

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From: Stuart Comer
Sent: 31 May 2012 23:24
To: Stuart Comer
Subject: Oskar Fischinger - Raumlichtkunst

Dear friends

 

I hope you can join us this Friday evening at Tate Modern for a special Oskar Fischinger screening featuring restored 35mm prints of his dazzling films from Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles. The screening marks the opening of a new Tate Modern Collection Display devoted to a reconstruction of Fischinger's innovative Raumlichtkunst (c.1926) that will be on view though Spring 2013. Raumlichtkunst is shown in the new display suite 'Structure and Clarity' (http://bit.ly/L0B7sD) which also features work by artists including Cory Arcangel, Rasheed Araeen, Lewis Baltz, Larry Bell, Constantin Brancusi, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lygia Clark, Robert Delaunay, Naum Gabo, Hans Haacke, Donald Judd, Kim Ku-lim, Sameer Makarius, Werner Mantz, Hélio Oiticica, Charlotte Posenenske, Gerhard Richter, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky, Victor Pasmore, Ad Reinhardt, Bridget Riley, Mira Schendel, Theo van Doesburg, Georges Vantongerloo, and many others.

 

 

OSKAR FISCHINGER: RAUMLICHTKUNST

http://bit.ly/KfPLTr

on view through Spring 2013

A reconstruction by Center for Visual Music, this three-screen installation recreates one of the first immersive multimedia performances using abstract films, creating dynamic new possibilities for cinema as an art form. Presented c.1926, the original event was described by Fischinger as ‘an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.’

 

OPTICAL POETRY: OSKAR FISCHINGER RETROSPECTIVE

Friday 1 June 2012, 7pm

http://bit.ly/JyiRIF

This special screening includes restored 35mm prints of landmark films including Allegretto, Composition In Blue, Kreise, Motion Painting no. 1, Spirals, Studies 6, 7 and 8, Walking from Munich to Berlin and more. Fischinger (1900–1967) was one of the masters of animated film and an influential pioneer of abstract cinema. Beginning his career in Weimar Republic Germany during the early 1920s, he redefined abstraction through dazzling films that explore the effects of sight, visual sound and motion as a spiritual pursuit. Presented in association with Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles.

 

For more information about Oskar Fischinger visit http://bit.ly/jqv13J

'Where Abstraction and Comics Collide: Esther Leslie on Oskar Fischinger' in Tate Etc: http://bit.ly/L0GND0

Tate Film is sponsored by Maja Hoffman / LUMA Foundation.

www.tate.org.uk/film