Kolkoz

all

Kolkoz

Artist's Name:

Kolkoz

Preferred medium:

video / film

birth year:

1972

Nationality:

City:

Paris

Kolkoz auf MyArtSpace

MyArtSpace is a free platform for artists who want to present their work.
home page of MyArtSpace

If you are Kolkoz you can create your own free profile page on MyArtSpace.
Please send your request here.

Kolkoz - Profile

The Kolkoz Towers, immense virtual towers created by an accumulation of façades of more modest buildings, rises to dizzying heights in cities, as if the favelas or urban renewal areas, which are generally governed by horizontality, had suddenly grown straight up to the sky. Are they monuments to the glory of the destitute, erectile absurdities, architectural marvels or blunders? Whoever seeks a social meaning, however plausible, would be missing the point, as this project, like the others, is less about falsifying or distorting reality than about accentuating and intensifying it to increase its effect. With the Kolkoz Towers, we can speak of speed, links and connections between images that alter reality, as these towers were themselves placed in a mosaic of shots that recreate the context of a city. Modeled on similar behavior, although more strongly marked by the nature of tourism, comparable mutations are at work in the travel films Hong Kong and New York, which deal as much with the architectural reality of the two cities as with filmed reality. In both films, Samuel and Benjamin move through urban spaces as tourists, traveling from the airport to the hotel, from the hotel to downtown and sometimes as far as the beach, taking taxis, subways and trains. These documents are based entirely on the esthetics of a home movie. In a certain sense, they maintain a close relationship with the sphere of the private world and uphold the authenticity of an actual experience. None of this would be very interesting without the 3D digitization of the images filmed with a DV camera-which profoundly altered the nature of the film. Because the aspects of the hyper-mundane are radically different from those of the mundane. And because the digitized version of the film shifts the touristy experience of their movements from the ordinary to the hyper-ordinary. And hence, all the characteristics of a home movie are contradicted, as is the entire underlying ideology of authenticity. (Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris/Miami)

important exhibitions from Kolkoz

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
Kolkoz : Parallax	UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art	Beijing	CN	26.11.2011

Kolkoz	Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin	Paris	FR	18.03.2009

Gold	Unteres Belvedere	Wien	AT	15.03.2012

Group Show	Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami	Miami	US	01.12.2009

Animamix: From Modernity to Eternity	MOCA Shanghai	Shanghai	CN	14.10.2007

EMERGENCY BIENNALE Chechnya / World Tour	CCA Wattis	San Francisco	US	26.01.2008

Notre histoire - une scène artistique française émergente	Palais de Tokyo	Paris	FR	21.01.2006