| Description |
Moving and setting in motion- the rebellious experimental spirit that drove Alfons Schilling in 1960 from the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna, where with Gunter Brus he had paved the way for Actionism, to Paris and New York, was also evident during the artist's long career in his vision machines and photographic work. His investifation of lenticular photography added a dynamic dimension to seeing and merged several image into a single picture. Holograms and sterophotography turn pictures into a virtual space. Those who travel the three-dimensional world today with head-mounted displays are merely following a path that Schilling embarked on in the 1970s. This book focused for the first time on the artist's expanded photographic vision, including his film experiments and projection performances. The central thrust of his pioneering work is a critique of perception and the liberation of the act of seeing itself: 'It's not what's on the picture it's what is behind it.' |