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Timing Analyses 1-4

Timing Analyses 1-4
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    • Timing Analyses 1-4
    • Fotórészletek a Timing negatívjáról 1-4
  • 1980
  • b&w photographs mounted on cardboard
  • 100 x 70 cm
Combining photographic and graphic components, the four tableaux represent the structure of “Timing” (1973-1980), a 16-mm experimental film, which is based on the concept that Dóra Maurer was folding a canvas, the proportions of which are the same as that of the film. On the tableaux, she illustrated each main sequence of the film, on the one hand with film stills and on the other with drawings depicting the pictures of the film, which in itself is a description of an experiment with the medium of film. So every single tableau is a graphic depiction of an abstract film, while the tableaux in themselves are geometrical abstract works combining the graphic and photographic technologies of reproduction. As an act of analysis, the work precisely reveals the subject of the film Timing, that is, the difference between subjective and objective timing. Besides, it also analyzes and demonstrates the aesthetic “surplus” (the beauty of inaccurate, unusual, and non-standard structures) of this difference. S.H.