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.. ?
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.
ΙΚΑΡΟΣ The Drowning from Roland Quelven on Vimeo.
ROJA Sarcófago
Bathtubs strangely look like Sarcófagos.
ROJA Sarcófago from Roland Quelven on Vimeo.
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.
Roland's work is always interesting, even if you don't particularly like a certain work. It's still something to think about, to ask yourself why you didn't 'like' it, what your expectations were etc. I've enjoyed Roland's work for long time now and I'm just sad that he no loner responds to communications. I note he has not responded in any form to this screening either. Do we begin to imagine that he may be perhaps...dead, and that his work sits there unattended? It would be sad to lose such a magnificent talent.
ReplyDeleteDavid, I think your fear is misplaced... I feel certain that Roland is reclusive and just prefers to stay out of the internet feedback pressure loop!
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