Video installation for 1 projector
6.52 min. (loop)
PAL – color - silent
Specifications: The projected image should touch the floor.

Realisation: Koen Theys
Production: VOTNIK

The images used in this work are scanned from a book called ‘Nues pour artistes ’(‘Nudes for artists’). Using morph-effects and digital multiplication of the image, the figures are moving in a small ‘art-history ballet’. At certain moments they express a kind of classical beauty, but at other moments they become Francis Baconlike monsters.

“… They multiply ad infinitum, repeating the same unconscious attitudes insatiably, and are transformed into hybrid monsters contaminated by the contractual arrangements of the academism.”
Ghislaine Pinassaud - Galerie XIPPAS

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“… From the figure of the discus pitcher to that of the thinker inter alia, the bodies are demolished then are recomposed in a slow multiplication, passing by a transitory stage rather in short which temporarily brings back these naked bodies to simple clusters of flesh…”
Eric Vidal – ParisART

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 “… And in the same way as the classic saints, the lives of the academy nudes and Hollywood actors are reduced to those few elements which enable them to become a convention in the framework of general and art history…”
Dries Vande Velde - presstext SMAK, Ghent

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“Strong point is the measured tempo, …”
Els Fiers – Focus Knack

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"… The work of Koen Theys entitled Academic Movement (2000) is exemplary in this respect: it shows the figural fluidity of an imagination that could be video…"
Sophie-Isabelle Dufour – L’image vidéo/d’Ovide à Bill Viola

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