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ORIENT EXPRESS à OSTRALE, DRESDE, 2010 (Français)
Press release (pdf)
Deutsche Text von Dagmar Hunold
foto Sylvio Dittrich |
ORIENT EXPRESS à OSTRALE, DRESDE, 2010 |
New version, will show in Dresden, Ostrale international exhibition september - august 2010
Exhibition of Stéphan Barron's diptych La bagarre des chiens - 1984
video edition dvdremix music by Jérôme Joy
The project was realized during a pivotal phase of european history, two years before the fall of the Berlin wall, there is an almost premonition sense of the rejoining of the post war divide.
This work is highly significant in its use of networks, digital technology and art on global scale. Ideas that seem omni-present now, ecology, travel and changes in our perception of time and space are all thoroughly explored in this mid 80`s work.
Orient express is important in the canon of technoromanticism, there are echos of the work of Caspar David Friedrich exploring common themes of distance, scale, spiritualism and fraternity by employing the tools of our time. By way of co-incidence Friedrich`s ¨The big enclosure¨ (Das große Gehege - Ostra Gehege) was
painted in 1832 at the site that is now the Ostrale.
Polaroid N° 2 Budapest-Paris | Orient Express in 1987 : | Digital N° 9 Budapest-Paris |
Stéphan Barron rode the Orient Express from Paris to Budapest
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The 2010 version uses leds. Each lightcase has a specific color.
Below : exhibitions in Rennes, Hérouville-saint-Clair, Paris, Tourcoing's school of fine arts.
Orient Express, Rennes, 1990 | Orient Express, Hérouville, 1990 | Orient Express, Paris, 1991 |
Orient Express, Tourcoing, 1994 |