Robert Cahen
Robert Cahen (* 1945 in Valence , Département Drôme ) is a French video artist .
life and work
Robert Cahen was born in southeast France in 1945. He completed his studies in composition at the Paris Conservatory with Pierre Schaeffer and Michel Chion .
"Schaeffer taught me to edit sounds, to listen to a sound in itself, to know how to grasp what's in a sound independently of its original concept ... that helped me to realize that you can look at an image without looking at what it originally signifies. "
From 1971 to 1974, Cahen was a member of the ORTF's Groupe de recherches musicales . From 1973 to 1976 he headed the experimental video department at ORTF / INA.
Cahen is considered to be one of the pioneers of video art. In his early video works, Cahen developed the basic principles of his work: a narrative approach that relies sparsely on words on the montage of images and music, an interest in the transition from still to moving images and the use of slow motion in a media-influenced and visual accelerated the present in order to make the unseen perceptible. Cahen's works deal with the perception of time, the fragility of memory and human mortality. He tells non-linear, ambiguous stories.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1987 documenta 8 , Kassel
- 1999 Composing with Images Museo Reina Sofía , Madrid
- 2008 Sculpting Time Kunsthaus Baselland
- 2011 Robert Cahen. Tell the invisible center for art and media technology
- 2015 Robert Cahen. Video installations Musée du Temps de Besançon
Awards
- 1995 ZKM International Video Art Prize
Web links
- Robert Cahen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ documenta 8 catalog: Volume 1: Essays; Volume 2: Catalog page 315; Volume 3: artist book; Kassel 1987, ISBN 3-925272-13-5 .
- ↑ Chris Meigh Andrews Robert Cahen: Passage, Harris Museum, Preston accessed September 20, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Electronic Arts Intermix Robert Cahen ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 24, 2015
- ↑ Robert Cahen Biography accessed on September 24, 2015 (English)
- ^ ZKM Robert Cahen. Telling the Invisible , accessed on September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Robert Cahen In: imai Foundation , accessed on July 12, 2017
- ↑ Museo Reina Sofia Composing with Images: A Robert Cahen Retrospective accessed on September 24, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Kunsthausbaselland Robert Cahen - Sculpting Time ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 20, 2015 (English)
- ↑ Robert Cahen. Telling the Invisible , accessed on September 24, 2015.
- ↑ Museum Pass Robert Cahen Video Installations ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 24, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cahen, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French video artist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valence Département Drôme |