Beyond Colour was first shown as part of the 'Scanners' exhibition, at London's AIR Gallery.
The installation uses 2 videotapes, 9 monitors arranged as a single square bank, and a mirrored floor. The tapes were made from images found in the landscape from billboards and neon signs to bridges and wildlife, and parts of the clothed human body.
Sometimes the whole image is used, but more often the camera records in close up, dissecting the environment: emphasising the unfamiliar parts of the familiar, and concentrating on colour, texture and contrasts. The sound was made using a simple thumb piano.
There is no narrative content in 'Beyond Colour'; Mineo Aayamaguchi's work is concerned primarily with light, colour, movement and composition, and aims to unite images through these qualities.
"Creating an almost church-like quality, 'Beyond Colour' was an installation that invited the viewer to linger, even to wallow in its sensuousness". Jeremy Welsh 'Kaleidoscope' Catalogue, ICA publication 1988.
(Re-staged Installation)
[LESS]Beyond Colour was first shown as part of the 'Scanners' exhibition, at London's AIR Gallery.
The installation uses 2 videotapes, 9 monitors arranged as a single square bank, and a mirrored floor. The tapes were made from images found in the landscape from billboards and neon signs to bridges and wildlife, and parts of the clothed human body.
Sometimes the whole image is used, but more often the camera records in close up, dissecting the environment: emphasising the unfamiliar parts of the familiar, and concentrating on colour, texture and contrasts. The sound was made using a simple thumb piano.
There is no narrative content in 'Beyond Colour'; Mineo Aayamaguchi's work is concerned primarily with light, colour, movement and composition, and aims to unite images through these qualities.
"Creating an almost church-like quality, 'Beyond Colour' was an installation that invited the viewer to linger, even to wallow in its sensuousness". Jeremy Welsh 'Kaleidoscope' Catalogue, ICA publication 1988.
(Re-staged Installation)
