Forth Bridge - Cinema. Metric Space
About this artwork
It was during a journey through Scotland in 1976 that Appelt first saw the Forth Rail Bridge. It made an immediate impact and he began to imagine a film work based on its construction. He returned to the project in 2002, producing a precisely composed photographic montage of the Rail Bridge comprising 312 separate black and white prints. Appelt then began by making a 35mm film, running the camera along the parallel Road Bridge. For the artist, the piece “emerges like a musical score from the filmic frame”, constructing a formal complexity as intricate as the physical laws that govern the original structure. This work lends an expressive weight both to photography and the conceptualisation of one of Scotland’s iconic monuments.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Dieter Appelt (born 1935) German
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title:Forth Bridge - Cinema. Metric Space
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date created:2004
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materials:Gelatin silver prints
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measurements:150.00 x 400.00 cm (individual framed panels: 48.00 x 150.00 x 4.00 cm)
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credit line:Purchased 2006
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accession number:PGP 368.1
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Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt is one of the most significant German artists of the post-war period. He originally trained as a musician, attending the ‘Hochschule der Kunste’ in East Berlin. However, during the 1970s his work evolved through performance, incorporating elements of sculptural construction and using...
