Modulator V3 (Paraphrase of LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage)
Lights Installation
From: Friday, 13 December 2024
To: Saturday, 21 December 2024
11:00 > 19:002024-12-13T11:00:00.000Z | Palazzo Falconeri
To: Saturday, 21 December 2024
11:00 > 19:002024-12-13T11:00:00.000Z | Palazzo Falconeri
When he created a paraphrase of one of the pioneering works of light art, leading Bauhaus professor Dávid Szauder drew inspiration from the iconic Light Prop for an Electric Stage (1930) by the constructivist painter, photographer, designer and theorist László Moholy-Nagy. The work conceived by László Moholy-Nagy and designed by the architect István Sebők was originally intended as an “experimental device for light painting” with the potential to use information gathered from various fields of art to operate it.
One idea was to create multiples for a multimedia installation, using the coordinated operation of the device, which could be triggered by remote control. Drawing from the prototype artwork (the original of which is displayed in the collection of the Harvard Museum and two other replicas in Eindhoven and Berlin), Szauder creates an interactive performance, which, taking into account Moholy-Nagy’s aesthetic-educational programme, is enriched by an auditory experience that responds to the light and shadow environment created by the movement of the sculpture.
Márton Orosz
One idea was to create multiples for a multimedia installation, using the coordinated operation of the device, which could be triggered by remote control. Drawing from the prototype artwork (the original of which is displayed in the collection of the Harvard Museum and two other replicas in Eindhoven and Berlin), Szauder creates an interactive performance, which, taking into account Moholy-Nagy’s aesthetic-educational programme, is enriched by an auditory experience that responds to the light and shadow environment created by the movement of the sculpture.
Márton Orosz
Author
Media artist David Szauder (b. 1976 in Hungary) studied Art History at the Eötvös Loránd University and Intermedia at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest, and completed a Masters Fellowship at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at the Aalto University in Helsinki.
From 2009 to 2014 he worked as the curator at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Berlin (.CHB). David Szauder was a visiting lecturer at the Film Academy, Potsdam, in addition to leading workshops on...