TANMAY BANERJEE

Un Voyage dans l’Espace (Extra) Terrestre 

(A work in progress)

‘La Reprise — Roman Opalka’ from “Detail-001, 1–32062” to “Detail-256, 5594934–5607249.” Each of the Details are run in a looped animation, perpetually oscillating between black and white.

Dennis Oppenheim “A Feedback Situation” 1971 © Dennis Oppenheim

A Repetitive Feed-in & Feed-out Situation 2016

A Series of Line Drawings 50cm (w) x 65cm (h)

Performed at: « La Cabane » as a participative art Université Paris VIII, France

‘A Repetitive Feed-in & Feed-out Situation’ is a prototype experimental performance, directly in reference to the performance of Dennis Oppenheim along with his son Erik called ‘A Feedback Situation’ 1971. 

The image seen above is an imaginary representation & recreation of a scene in reference to the performance done by Richard Long called “A Line made by Walking” (1967). This image represents the ending point of my video installation, but is actually an digital recreation of the starting point of Richard Long’s performance.  

“La Reprise, Imagine Richard Long Un-Walking for 15’” belongs to a series of digital artwork, titled “La Reprise”. The idea of ‘reprise’ or ‘remake’ is to recreate or regenerate the process used by some of the famous Artists on their iconic artworks through a number of digital manipulation, transforming progressively the appearance of the image while keeping a visual resemblance to the original artwork.

This is a digital artwork in the form of a video installation which is based on recreating in reverse a performance done by Richard Long called “A Line Made by Walking”. As the title of my work suggests, the idea is to let the viewers imagine a person walking in reverse and in the process undo or erase the act of tracing/drawing a line by walking.   

“La Reprise, Gerhard Richter” belongs to a series of digital recreation titled “La Reprise”. The idea of ‘reprise’ or ‘remake’ is to recreate, or regenerate the physical or manual process used by some of the famous Artists on their iconic artworks, through a number of digital manipulations, transforming the state of the image through motion and reinterpreting the process as a digital phenomenon while attempting to keep a visual resemblance to their respective work.

In this particular work “Recreate, Gerhard Richter 1 & 2” the idea is to reproduce a digital painting, resembling visually to that of a Gerhard Richter painting. 

The image (e) is composed out a series of photographs stitched together using Adobe Photoshop into a very long format image, which is then manipulated digitally by applying a manually controlled smudge effect from right to left, as seen on the image (f). 

“La Reprise, Gerhard Richter” belongs to a series of digital recreation titled “La Reprise”. The idea of ‘reprise’ or ‘remake’ is to recreate, or regenerate the physical or manual process used by some of the famous Artists on their iconic artworks, through a number of digital manipulations, transforming the state of the image through motion and reinterpreting the process as a digital phenomenon while attempting to keep a visual resemblance to their respective work.

In this particular work “Recreate, Gerhard Richter 2” the idea is to reproduce a digital painting, resembling visually to that of a Gerhard Richter painting. 

The image (a) is composed out a series of photographs stitched together using Adobe Photoshop, which is then manipulated digitally by applying a manually controlled smudge effect from right to left and then from top to bottom, as seen on the images (b,c,d). 

La Reprise, Jackson Pollock

“La Reprise, Jackson Pollock” belongs to a series of digital recreation, called “La Reprise”. The idea of ‘reprise’ or ‘remake’ is to recreate or regenerate the process used by some of the famous Artists on their iconic artworks through a number of digital manipulation while keeping a visual resemblance to their respective work.

In this particular work “Recreate, Jackson Pollock” the idea is to recreate a digital painting, resembling visually to that of a Jackson Pollock action painting. 

The first image is a photograph of a patch of paint marks found on the surface of an old wooden art table. The choice of image is simply due to its visual resemblance to a Jackson Pollock action painting, with layers of colours and textures. This image is then separated into five layers based on their colours (blue, red, yellow, white, shades of brown) see (Layers: 1,2,3,4,5). As the video installation reveals, each colour layer is seen separately​ applied one by one from left to right, reproducing the motion of a digital scanning process.

Espace, (un exercise de neuf cases) 2013

Objet de Reflexion, Sculpture 2012-13

Glass Cube 20cm (w) x 20cm (h) x 20cm (l)

The title of the project “Objet de Réflexion” is a French expression, quite literally meaning the object of thought. This reflective object is basically a sculpture, made from six mirrors stuck together to form a cube. « Objet de Réflexion» is literally the object onto which the images converging into the from all six directions, makes this object a physical and material representation of thought.

The second part of the project is an attempt at experimental Video Art. But more importantly, it is a solo performance art, carried out over four days walking across Paris carrying the glass cube or “Objet de Réflexion” on the left hand.

The filming of this process is meant to show how a single thought may manifest through multiple other sources of input, that we may or may not be aware of. As I film, the camera films only three sides of the glass cube, capturing three angles of reflexion, the other three sides of the cube goes completely unseen, uncaptured, yet in reality, they too exist and they too reflect an image. 

CD Sleeve / Print Design for a Video Installation 

“Transparence Opacité” is an installation that reveals a painting in motion. The images/frames prepared in the first half of the project are put through in a sequence merging one into the other at a slowed down pace. The idea of slowing down drastically the sequence of frames merging into each other is to provide a visual ambiguity of watching a still or moving image. 

Conceptually the sequence of frames in a timeline reveals a theoretical perception of depth, not depth in space or volume, but an idea of depth through time. 

This video installation can produce a spiritual and meditative ambience because of its still nature, and its lengthy duration. The magical aspect of this installation comes from the altercation of our visual perception. By looking at the screen between 5 - 10 minutes no movement can be evident, but over a 30 minute period the image would have morphed completely, but the viewer would not have felt that sudden change.