my mind is going
After enjoying a solo exhibition at the Château de Tours in 2018, Nikolas Chasser Skilbeck has been invited to present his latest video installation in the auditorium of the cccod. This triptych video entitled My Mind Is Going is filmed from a high angle from a boat immersing us in sea foam. The artist captures this footage on the fly presenting an immersive, contemplative and abstract installation, like a large abstract tableau in motion.
« I was in Italy in 2017 travelling between places by boat. I always have my camera with me so I filmed the wake alongside the boat from a fixed point. I realised that by maximising the chromatic scale of this content I could obtain really interesting, pictorial material… verging on abstraction.
I haven’t decided upon the final colours of piece yet… I have twelve different versions of it at the moment…Video is difficult in that respect…A painter can never go back. When they have changed
a canvas they have to live with it or change it again… With video, you can save all the different versions and stages. You can always go back! Ultimately though, with both video and painting there
is a crucial moment…The moment that you decide that you have finished the piece. This decisive choice ‘makes art’… »
Nikolas Chasser Skilbeck, extract from a conference that took place at the cccod, 4th April 2019 in partnership with the Jeu de Paume, Château de Tours
nikolas chasser skilbeck
Born in 1985 in New York, he lives and works in Tours.
His singular vision offers us a pictorial, poetic and strange world. Using a variety of devices (HD LED screens, projections, building mapping, installations, holograms) and drawing heavily on the history of art and cinema, his videos share their different experiences of time, producing an atmosphere that stands apart from reality.
Very open in the universe of sensations she offers viewers, her video production leaves as much room for peace as for disquiet.
After enjoying a solo exhibition at the Château de Tours in 2018, Nikolas Chasser Skilbeck has been invited to present his latest video installation in the auditorium of the cccod. This triptych video entitled My Mind Is Going is filmed from a high angle from a boat immersing us in sea foam. The artist captures this footage on the fly presenting an immersive, contemplative and abstract installation, like a large abstract tableau in motion.
« I was in Italy in 2017 travelling between places by boat. I always have my camera with me so I filmed the wake alongside the boat from a fixed point. I realised that by maximising the chromatic scale of this content I could obtain really interesting, pictorial material… verging on abstraction.
I haven’t decided upon the final colours of piece yet… I have twelve different versions of it at the moment…Video is difficult in that respect…A painter can never go back. When they have changed
a canvas they have to live with it or change it again… With video, you can save all the different versions and stages. You can always go back! Ultimately though, with both video and painting there
is a crucial moment…The moment that you decide that you have finished the piece. This decisive choice ‘makes art’… »
Nikolas Chasser Skilbeck, extract from a conference that took place at the cccod, 4th April 2019 in partnership with the Jeu de Paume, Château de Tours
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