L'artiste : Julius Von Bismarck

Julius von Bismarck est né en 1983 à Vieux-Brisach (Allemagne), il vit actuellement à Berlin. Il est diplômé de la Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) et de l’Institute for Spatial Experiments fondé par Olafur Eliasson, dont il était l’élève jusqu’à l’obtention de son Master en 2013.

Mêlant les arts visuels à d’autres champs de recherche et d’expérimentation tels que les sciences sociales ou physiques, la pratique artistique de Julius von Bismarck se manifeste sous des formes diverses – de l’installation au happening, de la sculpture au Land Art. Elle se définit par une exploration approfondie et complexe des phénomènes de perception, de représentation et de reconstruction de la réalité.

(source : Palais de Tokyo)

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L'oeuvre : Punishment

"The landscape imagery in the photographs and videos of the Punishment series recall the paintings of the Romantic period: craggy mountains, deep gorges, the sea, and mountain lakes. These are large- format, classical motifs of nature, in which one sees a lone person with a whip. Julius von Bismarck is energetically whipping a small piece of the majestic landscape to the point of physical exhaustion. The artist and his whip are dwarfed by the powerful background.
The work was originally exhibited as a video, to which the Swiss writer Dorothee Elmiger wrote and recited a poem (p. 30) that underscores the rhythm of the whip. The text makes reference to the Persian King Xerxes I, who in 480 BC had ordered that the sea be whipped as a punishment for having destroyed a recently built bridge during a storm.
The series was later continued in a different setting. On Liberty Island in New York the artist began whipping the base of the towering Statue of Liberty and was soon arrested."

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