| "Alles Gute kommt von oben." | |
 |
|
| Installation shown in the exhibition "Transatlantik - une liaison transatlantique" gallery Skol in Montréal | |
| >> play Flash Movie | |
| In Alles Gute kommt von oben, a video installation whose title may be translated "all good things comes from heaven," Philipp Gasser places visitors in front of an interactive installation that tenders a rather derisory power. A male figure stand before us, revolving, visibly within for an event to occur. When viewers push a red button, the figure, suddenly haloed in what appears to be a "heavenly" glow, raises his arms in seeming expectation. Other than making light appear, nothing else happens; manna does not fall from the skies. Push the button once again, and the figure resumes turning. The artwork is disarmingly simple, but its mechanisms give us the illusory, godlike sensation of potentially being able to dole out happiness at will to someone marked by complete candor. Bernard Lamarche "Happiness and pretence" Le bonheur est dans l'image, p.28(français) Katalog Manif d'art 2, Québec, Kanada 2004 |
|
 |
|
 |
|