Clemens Behr
MONGONISSI GREENSCREENS - Rocks in Mongonissi Bay
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Clemens Behr’s architectural installations usually fit in with their natural surrounding. 'Mongonissi Greenscreens', however, was made to stand out as much as possible in order to operate on two different levels.
On the one hand, the bright green, geometric, and abstract composition apears as a classic, site-specific installation, that gracefully unfolds itself between the rocks and crevices of the especially picturesque Mongonissi environment.
On the other hand, the bright green fashion lets Behr extinguish the installation from it's environment by using it as a green screen in digital postproduction. In this process the geometrical shapes stay visible, while it's surfaces melt back in with the surfaces of the rocks. Thus, Behr's ambigous installation 'Mongonissi Greenscreens' comments on itself and asks one very central questions about the artist's practice and mankinds interference in public space: Do we have the right to change the appearance of our natural environment and if so, how do we define the standards to do so?
www.clemensbehr.com
VIDEO OF THE INSTALLATION
“Mongonissi Greenscreens”
installation view
Wood colored in greenscreen green
photos: the artist
MONGONISSI GREENSCREENS - Rocks in Mongonissi Bay
Clemens Behr’s architectural installations usually fit in with their natural surrounding. 'Mongonissi Greenscreens', however, was made to stand out as much as possible in order to operate on two different levels.
On the one hand, the bright green, geometric, and abstract composition apears as a classic, site-specific installation, that gracefully unfolds itself between the rocks and crevices of the especially picturesque Mongonissi environment.
On the other hand, the bright green fashion lets Behr extinguish the installation from it's environment by using it as a green screen in digital postproduction. In this process the geometrical shapes stay visible, while it's surfaces melt back in with the surfaces of the rocks. Thus, Behr's ambigous installation 'Mongonissi Greenscreens' comments on itself and asks one very central questions about the artist's practice and mankinds interference in public space: Do we have the right to change the appearance of our natural environment and if so, how do we define the standards to do so?
www.clemensbehr.com
VIDEO OF THE INSTALLATION
“Mongonissi Greenscreens”
installation view
Wood colored in greenscreen green
photos: the artist
