Jean-Michel Rolland
Chironomies : Vasily Petrenko, Chironomies : Barbara Hannigan and Chironomies : Fabio Luisi
03:38, 04:34 and 05:07
Jean-Michel Rolland
Chironomies : Vasily Petrenko, Chironomies : Barbara Hannigan and Chironomies : Fabio Luisi
03:38, 04:34 and 05:07
"Chironomies" is an ongoing series of videos that reveal the aesthetics of music conductors' gestures.
The recordings of the musical works used are edited to retain only the relevant parts.
The bodies, stripped of the superfluous and multiplied, leave traces that create patterns specific to each conductor.
The result is visual and musical recompositions that navigate between figuration and abstraction.
Jean-Michel Rolland is a French artist born in 1972. A long time a musician and a painter, he brings together his two passions - the sound and the image - in digital arts since 2010.
Through video artworks, generative art, audiovisual performances and interactive installations, he questions the temporality, a genuine fourth dimension inherent to moving image, as well as the duality between his two favorite mediums, the sound and the visual.
His formal research is guided by the desire to reveal the intrinsic nature of our perceptual environment and to twist it to better give new realities to the world around us.
His works, always very experimental, are a reflection of the sometimes unexpected internal world of their author and are however the object of an important diffusion abroad. Several have been rewarded for their originality, by United Nations University (Dresden Germany), Digital Graffiti in Miami (USA), Multimatograf (Russia), dokumentART (Germany and Poland), the University of North Carolina (USA), Festival do Minuto (Brazil), Artaq (France), ArchiShorts (Canada) and The International Video Art Review (Poland).