Jeu
15 June, 2008
Georges Schwizgebel animates by painting on glass. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of paintings that morph, one into the next into the next. Jeu, with its Escher-feel, is the most geometric piece I have seen from him. But everything that I have seen from him is a beautiful circular carousel ride. Circuitous without becoming redundant. It feels, somehow, like a trance-song, intended to put one into a state of sublime bliss.
I would dearly love to see this piece on film, because digitally the textures are lacking and it feels like the depth of the paint is not captured. When I first saw La Course à l’abîme it was possible to see the shadows on the brushstrokes, and I have a feeling that this would be true of Jeu as well. But when something tastes as divine as this on a digital projection, it would be pure serene ecstasy to see it projected on film.
