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Marcel Broodthaers — 24 images/seconde
Marcel Broodthaers

24 images/seconde

1970

"24 images/seconde" by Marcel Broodthaers is a mixed media work combining filmreel collage with pencil on card that references the technical standard of cinema, where 24 frames per second create the illusion of moving images. The work exemplifies Broodthaers's conceptual approach to art, interrogating the relationship between time, mechanical reproduction, and perception. By reducing cinema to its material components and mathematical principle, the artist transforms a technical specification into a meditation on how we experience visual culture.

Medium
filmreel collage and pencil on card

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Marcel Broodthaers, 24 images/seconde, 1970

"24 images/seconde" by Marcel Broodthaers is a mixed media work combining filmreel collage with pencil on card that references the technical standard of cinema, where 24 frames per second create the illusion of moving images. The work exemplifies Broodthaers's conceptual approach to art, interrogating the relationship between time, mechanical reproduction, and perception. By reducing cinema to its material components and mathematical principle, the artist transforms a technical specification into a meditation on how we experience visual culture.

Medium
filmreel collage and pencil on card
Year
1970
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

20th Century, Institutional Critique, Belgian Artist, Film/Video, Meditative, Time-Based Media, Conceptual Art, Temporal experience, Experimental Cinema, Time and Perception

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