Jacob Kassay, Untitled, 2011, 16mm film installation, 27 mins. Courtesyof the artist; Protocinema, Istanbul; Art: Concept, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, photos Batu Tezyuksel.
Jacob Kassay
20 January – 16 February 2013
at Protocinema, Istanbul
During the single, 27-minute shot of Jacob Kassay’s 16mm film “Untitled” (2011), a helicopter lifts off from the desert ground, rises a couple of meters, hovers in place, then lands. The rotation of the helicopter’s blades synchronize with the frame rate of the recording camera, 24 frames per second. We see the paradox of flight without motion, the still blades lifting the vehicle. “The work stages an encounter between two machines in which the recording device cancels out an essential element of its subject, replacing the physical fact of its mechanics with the magic of its flight. Exploiting a coincidence of industrial design, Kassay fuses a phenomenon with its perception, re-enchanting it.” The projection is the size of the projector itself and the volume of the recorded helicopter is equalized to the acoustic quality of the projector within the room which it is displayed. His film expands on the approach that Kassay has been addressing his paintings. “Kassay creates a complicity between opposites and inserts paradox into the fabric of knowledge: he makes colorless pieces about color; he makes opaque surfaces about reflection; he makes fixed images about movement …… ” [read the full text here]
Protocinema
İnönü Caddesi No: 9a
below Collectorspace
Taksim, Gümüşsuyu
Istanbul 34437
Turkey
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Jacob Kassay, Installation view, 2012, glass, borrowed books. Courtesy of the artist; Protocinema, Istanbul; Art: Concept, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, photos Batu Tezyuksel.
Jacob Kassay, Untitled, 2012, glass, borrowed book, glass. Courtesy of the artist; Protocinema, Istanbul; Art: Concept, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, photos Batu Tezyuksel.
Jacob Kassay, Untitled, 2012, glass, borrowed book, glass. Courtesy of the artist; Protocinema, Istanbul; Art: Concept, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, photos Batu Tezyuksel.
Image courtesy of the artist; Protocinema, Istanbul; Art: Concept, Paris; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, photos Batu Tezyuksel.