Rhythm
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- Rhythm
- 1981
- video, color, sound
- 22min, 25sec
The video work “Rhythm” reflects the process of painting. It is shot with a static camera, and shows Neša Paripović putting layers of paint on a white surface by drumming his fingers on the surface. This gradually creates an “abstract painting” consisting of several blots, and finally a thick amorphous surface. Referring to Pollock’s action painting, the artist emphasizes repetition and monotony in opposition to a dynamic gesture that comes out of the movement of the whole body. Hence, the artist positions himself analytically and critically while appropriating ironic distance in relation to paradigms of modernist painting. At the same time, by using a different medium, Paripović adds something which is immanent to the painting and yet invisible in the final product: rhythm, sound and time. B.S.