{"id":5874,"date":"2011-03-09T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2011-03-09T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T14:43:20","slug":"the-splice-oliver-pietsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2011\/03\/family\/the-splice-oliver-pietsch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Splice: Oliver Pietsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin-based<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettiehorn.com\/01Oliver_Pietsch.htm\"> Oliver Pietsch<\/a> (b.1972) has throughout his practice employed jewels of cinema as his artistic materials, gleaning clips from famous films to create distorted narratives. At London gallery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettiehorn.com\">Nettie Horn<\/a> on Hackney&#8217;s Vyner Street, Pietsch creates home-theater environments complete with bean-bag chairs and pure darkness, a sort of stoner den that prompts the dissipation of time and space. Pietsch&#8217;s work seems to cater to the ADD generation; his eye never rests on one clip for more than half a minute, yet instead of appearing as jumpy and disorderly, his films imbue a sense of calm tension. In his epic 2010 video &#8220;From Here to Eternity,&#8221; he studies death and the historically cinematic representation of it. The film progresses in three chapters: death of the body, fear or anticipation of death, and finally post-mortem life. Images from obscure early films are complemented by Hollywood blockbusters and range from suspenseful to gory, creating a viewing experience characterized by contemplation, anticipation, and memory stimulation.\u00a0Though deeply aware of the risk of employing popular imagery as his source material, Pietsch is emerging as a master of the splice, revisiting choice moments of cinematic history to communicate poignant social and psychological commentary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Maybe-Not-1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Maybe-Not-11.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6221\" title=\"Maybe-Not-1\" src=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Maybe-Not-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a>A still from &#8220;Maybe Not&#8221; (2005).<\/p>\n<p>View Pietsch&#8217;s 40 minute video &#8220;From Here to Eternity&#8221; in its entirety (a rarity for art videos!) as well as other works on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nettiehorn.com\/images\/artists\/Oliver%20Pietsch\/Videos\/OliverPietsch_FromHereToEternity.htm\">Nettie Horn<\/a>&#8216;s website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2011-03-09-\u00e0-12.31.08.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6219\" title=\"Capture d\u2019\u00e9cran 2011-03-09 \u00e0 12.31.08\" src=\"https:\/\/validation.maisonkitsune.bird.eu\/mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Capture-d\u2019\u00e9cran-2011-03-09-\u00e0-12.31.08.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a>A still from &#8220;Because&#8221; (2008)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin-based Oliver Pietsch (b.1972) has throughout his practice employed jewels of cinema as his artistic materials, gleaning clips from famous films to create distorted narratives&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[671,793,14,794,795,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}