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Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.
The Amazon is reaching a tipping point. Once a proportion of the rainforest is
lost, it will no longer be able to hold the necessary moisture to create the
rainfall to sustain itself. Massive dieback will occur with a devastating
release of carbon into the atmosphere with a major global impact on climate
change.
How does one make an artwork about this? One that possesses a dazzling beauty
and, at the same time, has the ability to stop you in your tracks and shock you
into action?
This is the mission the Irish-born, New York-based photographer Richard Mosse
set himself in
Broken Spectre, an immersive, 74-minute-long moving image work
having its world premiere at the NGV.
On a 20 metre wide screen,
Broken Spectre breaks with many existing
cinematographic conventions and has created new technology through which to
document this existential threat to the human species."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
