SKY NUDE

Scanning the Sky above a Museum for 24 Hours

Exhibition Trivial Machines, ­Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen (D), 1992

Sky Nude

Sky Nude

Sky Nude (detail)

Sky Nude (detail)

Sky Nude (detail)

The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

 

Excerpt from journal die tages­zeitung (TAZ), May/18/1992

Against the Instruction
(…) Non-trivial in utili­sation and result is Franz John’s Hagen-commis­sioned work “Sky Nude”. For 24 hours he worked a color-scanner out­side on a roof and digi­tal­ised the sky above it. In­com­pre­hen­sible in form and color the al­to­gether 630 high­reso­lution scans caused aston­ish­ment: “where does the sky actually begin”. Some still shim­mer in the black of the night chang­ing to a psyche­delic spec­trum with the mor­ning rain and could in day­light be an inspi­ra­tion for Ger­hard Richter’s ab­stract paint­ings.
Jochen Becker
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Video: “Sky Nude”, May-08-1992, 00:00 – May-08-1992, 24:00
Total: 8’25” (time lapse loop)