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## An intervention after Poussin, I (2015)

by Aldobranti

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digital assemblage of analogue photographic images

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###### Full Description

to do so any post-processing on my images is unusual for me, I am here using multiple exposures to explore an intervention on my installation "Lights Festive Tents" -- the intervention references Poussin's Arcadian Shepherds (1640) and honours Poussin's draughting technique in revealing Light through Shadow.

###### Work metadata

- Year Created: 2015
- Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday May 7th, 2015
- Original Url: http://aldobranti.eu/images/Lights%20Festive%20Tents,%20Intervention%20I.jpg
- Work Credits:
  - aldobranti, primary creator

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###### Artist Statement

My practice as a photographer centres on an enquiry into an independent and separated cast shadow. In the course of my MA year (Winchester School of Art, grad. 2014) I found a line of poetry from Novalis' Hymns to the Night. "In anderen Räumen schlug die lustigen Gezelte das Licht auf" Roger Cardinal translates this rather freely as "Light sets up its Festive Tents in places unsuspected"

I made a large cube, illuminated inside by UV, 'black' light. The cube is displayed in a darkened space and reveals an interior activity with shadows passing too and fro over the sides. While viewers have many responses and suggest that it is "about Cinema", "about the Art World", "about exteriority and exclusion"; I made this work as a celebration of Light's affordance of Appearance to Matter.

###### Comments

- aldobranti fosco fornio | 7 months, 2 weeks ago
  I submit this as a work in progress