CURTAIN CALL

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  • Artist Alexander Gutke
  • Technical: Video-loop, Insallation, 2-channel sound Courtesy Alexander Gutke Excerpt of the video installation
  • Duration: 6’05´´
  • Year of production: 2021 / Première
  • Country: Sweden
In the video installation, Curtain Call , the red theatre curtain used as the backdrop to the opening credits of 20th Century Fox's first movie in the Cinemascope format, ‘The Robe’ (1953); has been taken out of its context and allowed to take center stage. Installed in a darkened space, the projection shows the red curtain opening and closing to a nondescript open space, bathed in a bright, warm light.

Alexander Gutke

Born in 1971 in Kungälv, Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden. Alexander Gutke works within the conceptual and minimalist tradition. Analogue apparatuses such as cameras, film and slide projectors are some of the main components in his art practice. Gutke investigates these technical elements as objects and mechanical devices, and uses them as tools and objects in his works and narrative creating a visual illusionism and a poetic and mystical materialism. Through his works, the artist explores a whole host of issues, ranging from narrative self-reflexivity, measurement, space, light, shade, darkness and what can be best described as a metaphysical existentialism.