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Thierry Kuntzel

Nostos III

  • Exhibition, Paris
  • Thu 28 Sep → Sun 10 Dec 1995
Thierry Kuntzel Nostos III 1995
Thierry Kuntzel, Abandon (Ne me quitte pas), 1995 © Thierry Kuntzel

Location

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

261 boulevard Raspail

75014 Paris

Born in 1948, Thierry Kuntzel is one of the foremost figures of video art of his generation. For the Fondation Cartier he has created Nostos III, the third wing of a triptych concerned with the recollection—the forgetting–of the image.

The subject is a moving journey into the heart of memory, by means of family photos that are subjected to an inexorable movement of decomposition before disappearing altogether. Projected in video into a large screen, these figures illustrate the transient nature of life and the steady flow of time, a central theme of the artist’s work. Thierry Kuntzel’s work introduces us into a fictitious setting where the video image raises questions about perception, dramatizes our system of vision and records the implacable, steady passage of time. Video thus becomes an act of meditation, a pure experience.

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