Revisiting Roland Quelven

 

ROLAND  QUELVEN



Today I'm sharing just a few short works by our friend Roland. They are not recent works, quite a few years have passed since he posted them. I keep going back to his various pieces, over and over. I find them fascinating, compelling. Many of Roland's themes keep recurring, from one work to another. I hope that you will enjoy their rich associations as I do.



White Light / White Heat


White Light / White Heat from Roland Quelven on Vimeo.




ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Daedalus


ACT1 / ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Daedalus

The Winds, the Fall, the Drowning
Did Daedalus plan everything.. ?

ΙΚΑΡΟΣ Daedalus from Roland Quelven on Vimeo.


ΙΚΑΡΟΣ The Drowning



"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."

Leonardo da Vinci.



ROJA Sarcófago


Bathtubs strangely look like Sarcófagos.






Roland Quelven

Born in 1967. Lives in Brittany. Graduated in mathematics, painter, video artists and sound collagist. He collaborates with various artists, is involved in several collaborative projects, and his works are screened in many international videoart festivals. In 2009 he created the multimedia project «Napolecitta or the fractals virtues of Detail»: digital and sound collages, flash animations in a website devoted to a description of an ancient imaginary city named Napolecitta (fusing Napoli and Cinecitta). Since 2010 the ancient city has become an encyclopedic and imaginary world also named Napolecitta. Most of the videoworks are numbered, gathered as a register, an imaginary official record, a combination of numbers, maps, writings, paintings, masterpieces of Art history, video footage, video materials recorded digitally assembled as palimpsests. All this seen through the prism of the Detail. The reality concentrates as the fragment stands out… seeing through the prism of the Detail, whether iconic or pictorial,  produces always the same effect: an « invitation to travel inside.



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