Gustavo Romano / Portfolio

The Afternoon of a Writer


Action. Videoprojection, 1 channel video. 1998

The video consists in the an x-ray image of the hand of the artist, writing upon a piece of paper. The bones and the pen are visible but the words being written are not.
The audio is simply the amplified sound of the friction of a pen against a sheet of paper.

(video fragment)

 

The first installation was during the exhibition "Circumstantial Evidence (Macchi- Romano)" in the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, in 1998. Subsequently it was exhibited in numerous samples, such as the VII Havana Biennial, 2000, Borges .es in Casa de Amérca, Madrid, 1999, or in "Recent Acquisitions", in the New Museum of New York, 2001, among others.
The work belongs to the collections of the New Museum in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and private collectors.

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Still from the vídeo
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Still from the vídeo
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Still from the vídeo
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Videoinstallation at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
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Videoinstallation at Casa de América, Madrid

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