Yellow Movies / Tony Conrad
Publisher: Galerie Daniel Buchholz General note: Yellow Movie 2/23–24/73 is from a series called Yellow Movies, in which Conrad explored the intersection of film and painting. To create his Yellow Movies, Conrad painted black rectangular frames in the same proportions as traditional movie screens on large pieces of photographic backdrop paper. He coated the interior of the rectangle with paint he knew would yellow and darken with time, and directed viewers to wait. Thinking about the way furniture pulled away from a wall after a period of years leaves a “photographic” impression—its darkened outline—Conrad recalled, “I realized that if I used cheap house paint as an emulsion, people who wanted to be in my Yellow Movies could stand against them for, say, a year or two and leave their trace embedded in them in a monumental way.”| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Catalogue | 5.ve 6.Kat 5. ve 6. Kat | Arter Kütüphanesi | ARS6 15 (Browse shelf) | Available | 301032 |
Yellow Movie 2/23–24/73 is from a series called Yellow Movies, in which Conrad explored the intersection of film and painting. To create his Yellow Movies, Conrad painted black rectangular frames in the same proportions as traditional movie screens on large pieces of photographic backdrop paper. He coated the interior of the rectangle with paint he knew would yellow and darken with time, and directed viewers to wait. Thinking about the way furniture pulled away from a wall after a period of years leaves a “photographic” impression—its darkened outline—Conrad recalled, “I realized that if I used cheap house paint as an emulsion, people who wanted to be in my Yellow Movies could stand against them for, say, a year or two and leave their trace embedded in them in a monumental way.”
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