Whitney Museum

Oskar Fischinger

28 Jun - 28 Oct 2012

Oskar Fischinger (1900–1967)
Raumlichtkunst, 1926/2012. Three screen projection: three 35mm films transferred to high-definition video, black-and-white and color, sound; 10 minutes, looped. © Center for Visual Music
OSKAR FISCHINGER
Space Light Art—A Film Environment
28 June – 28 October 2012

This exhibition presents one of the first multimedia projections ever made—Oskar Fischinger’s Raumlichtkunst (Space Light Art), a recreation of his multiple-screen film events first shown in Germany in 1926, recently restored by the Center for Visual Music in Los Angeles. Radical in its format, its multiple screens of abstract shapes, color, and light produced an experience that, in Fischinger’s own description of his work, created “an intoxication by light from a thousand sources.”
 

Tags: Oskar Fischinger