Richard Stipl
12 Feb - 28 Mar 2009
RICHARD STIPL
"The oblivious obvious (Choleric)"
12.02.2009 - 28.03.2009
Oblivious obvious (Choleric) is the first installment in four part series discussing the four human temperaments: the choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic. this ancient way of classifying personalities is said to have been invented by hippocrates and is still used to this day in some variation or other. (eg. the meyrs briggs test used widely by employers to select the right kind of personalities to create well working teams of employees) "choleric corresponds to the fluid of bile, the season of summer(dry and hot), and the element of fire, the time of day noon. A person who is choleric is a doer and a leader. They have a lot of ambition, energy, and passion, and try to instill it in others. Many great charismatic military and political figures were cholerics. On the negative side, they are easily angered or badtempered. A person described as "bilious" is mean-spirited, suspicious, and angry. The disease cholera gained its name from choler (bile)."
Each temperament will be represented by an installation or set and a video. when the whole series is completed a video consisting of all segments will be presented as the final piece. The installation functions as a sculpture incorporating differnet media including painting but it's primary function is a film set for the video. the sculpure and video is a manifestation of the temperament here represented by the element of fire. We see the world turned upside down in what appears to be an endless rotation of a burned out and charred city and the after effects of fire. the hyennas scavenging in a rigorous matriarchal hiearchy represent this temperament in it's unbridled energy as the custodians of this nightmarish world. the three and half minute video is a series of 570 still photographs stiched together to produce the illusion of a moving image.
"The oblivious obvious (Choleric)"
12.02.2009 - 28.03.2009
Oblivious obvious (Choleric) is the first installment in four part series discussing the four human temperaments: the choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic. this ancient way of classifying personalities is said to have been invented by hippocrates and is still used to this day in some variation or other. (eg. the meyrs briggs test used widely by employers to select the right kind of personalities to create well working teams of employees) "choleric corresponds to the fluid of bile, the season of summer(dry and hot), and the element of fire, the time of day noon. A person who is choleric is a doer and a leader. They have a lot of ambition, energy, and passion, and try to instill it in others. Many great charismatic military and political figures were cholerics. On the negative side, they are easily angered or badtempered. A person described as "bilious" is mean-spirited, suspicious, and angry. The disease cholera gained its name from choler (bile)."
Each temperament will be represented by an installation or set and a video. when the whole series is completed a video consisting of all segments will be presented as the final piece. The installation functions as a sculpture incorporating differnet media including painting but it's primary function is a film set for the video. the sculpure and video is a manifestation of the temperament here represented by the element of fire. We see the world turned upside down in what appears to be an endless rotation of a burned out and charred city and the after effects of fire. the hyennas scavenging in a rigorous matriarchal hiearchy represent this temperament in it's unbridled energy as the custodians of this nightmarish world. the three and half minute video is a series of 570 still photographs stiched together to produce the illusion of a moving image.