Marcel Broodthaers
(
Brussels
1924 -
Cologne
1976 )
N/A
M.B., 24 Images/Seconde, 1970
35 mm black and white film strip and pencil on white cardboard.
500 x 650 mm.
Edition of: • 50 copies. • 10 artist’s proofs (I-X), all numbered and signed.
Signed lower left M.B., titled 24 images par seconde upper left, numbered and dated bottom right.
Published by Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin.
The film frames are numbered in pencil from 1 to 24, on the right side of the film strip. The artist’s proofs have a tipped-on printed document with a text in German, English and French: ‘The Folker Skulima Gallery presents the shortest film in the world: A Second of Eternity by Marcel Broodthaers after an idea by Charles Baudelaire. 35 mm – black/ white – length: 1 second – camera: Wenzel – processing: Mosaik – production: Skulima Berlin 1970.
The film will be projected in an endless band at the speed of 24 frames/ second as part of an exhibition with the aim of presenting the static as against the kinetic image. The exhibition consists of a) the film celluloid; b) a sculptured reproduction of the 24th frame.’
|
| |
|
Literature:
|
Literature
Jan Ceuleers, Marcel Broodthaers - The Complete Prints and Books, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, 2012, p. 16-17, no. 4
|
| |
|
|
