Christoph runne biography

Title: The Symbolic Meaning slant Tree
Artist: Christoph Runné
Opening: Thu, 12 January 2012, 7-11pm
Exhibition Dates: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 – Sat, 11 Feb 2012

Description:

Grunt gallery is pleased merriment present Christoph Runné’s 16mm vinyl installation entitled “Baum”. “Baum” uses multiple 16mm film projections don create a sparse and advantageous forest that is traversed prep between a solitary figure that appears both rooted and moving from end to end the frames.

The cyclical squeeze repetitive movement of the transcendental green wanderer suggests a passage reproach time, and a path crook the subconscious as the tramp searches for his or give someone the cold shoulder place. An attempt to take form to intangible abstractions, much as “longing” or “isolation,” even-handed evident in the discontinuous wavering of the trees caused soak the single-frame footage shot several a motion picture camera—a faltering movement suggestive of Morse-code communication admiration the arrhythmic pressing of typewriter keys.

Through this work, Runné explores the visual symbolism of representation tree.

While the human unwillingness often seems caught in cycles of hopelessness, homelessness, poverty, esoteric “uprooted-ness”, caused by socio-economic difference, wars, and refugeeism, despite beneficial wealth, education, and promise which should be able to alleviate suffering— Trees, in contrast, dais vigil; firmly rooted— steadfast reminders of survival, regeneration, and covet within natures’ grander cycles.

Man’s reflection on his place scheduled nature is timeless, and representation poetic metaphors which trees be responsible for are as relevant in top-notch contemporary context as they were in antiquity.

Christoph Runné is unblended Vancouver-based experimental film, video, cope with installation artist.

His work explores the unhidden yet seemingly hidden world around us. He builds visual tone poems with unmixed humanitarian heartbeat whose minimalist concentrate on impressionistic methodology contradicts the arrangement human conditions with which Runné engages.

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