movement

The art of flying is a short film about “murmurations”: the mysterious flights of the Common Starling. It is still unknown how the thousands of birds are able to fly in such dense swarms without colliding. Every night the starlings gather at dusk to perform their stunning air show.

stainless, alexanderplatz

Hungarian artist Adam Magyar has been receiving international attention with art that explore concept of urban life. Magyar depicts the synergies of people, the cities they inhabit, and the technological support structures created to facilitate urban life. He explores the flow of time and life through multiple photography and video-based series, three of which will be presented in Syracuse. Magyar uses unconventional devices, like an industrial machine-vision camera that relies on scanning technology.

Utilizing software and drivers which he programs himself, Magyar creates constructed images that capture moments in time and place that can neither be seen with the bare eye nor conventional optical cameras. The beautiful images combine the aesthetics of classic photography with a technology that redefines our understanding of linear time and singular space in a perfect blend of science and art. In his works, Magyar scrutinizes the transience of life and man's inherent urge to leave some trace behind.

Your watercolour horizon consists of a spotlight, shining onto a prism that separates the white light into the colours of the spectrum; these are reflected from a circular pool of water onto the wall of the space, creating a circular rainbow. A pedal mechanism placed in the floor is connected via a rod to the water basin: when a visitor steps on the pedal, small waves are created in the pool, which make the rainbow projection on the wall vibrate.

/ your watercolor horizon

2009

Water pendulum makes use of dancing water illuminated by strobe lights to transform the flow of time into a sequence of seemingly frozen moments. The water’s movements are unpredictable, sometimes slow and gentle, sometimes sudden and abrubt. Eliasson’s experiments with strobe lights and water began in the 1990s with works that appeared to suspend streams of water droplets in mid-air. Inspired by the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s studies of animals in motion from the nineteenth century, these works emerged from the artist’s investigations into the nature of time – into whether time is something we observe passing outside us or something intrinsic to what and where we are.