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)