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From 'Object Lessons: Case Studies in Minimal Art—The @guggenheim @panzacollection Initiative:' Video Stills from Lawrence Weiner’s 1970 “TO THE SEA / ON THE SEA / FROM THE SEA / AT THE SEA / BORDERING THE SEA,” made with Gerry Schum, founder and director of the Fernsehgalerie (Television Gallery) in Berlin and Hanover.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ “Weiner produced a video presentation of as his contribution to Schum’s second television exhibition, ‘Identifications,’ which was broadcast on West German television on November 30, 1970. The 36-minute program featured short films and videos by 20 American and European artists, including Joseph Beuys, Daniel Buren, Gilbert & George, Mario Merz and Richard Serra. In Weiner’s 50-second black-and-white video, which was shot by Schum on the Dutch coast, each phrase appears in white letters on a black background and is followed by footage of the artist executing a corresponding action: he walks toward the sea (TO THE SEA); he places a log on the sea (ON THE SEA); he picks up the floating log and brings it back to the beach (FROM THE SEA); he stands on the beach with the log (AT THE SEA); finally, he walks away from the camera along the sea (BORDERING THE SEA). The soundtrack consists of only the sound of breaking waves.”⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Edited with text by Francesca Esmay, Ted Mann, Jeffrey Weiss. Preface by Nancy Spector, Lena Stringari. Text by Martha Buskirk, Virginia Rutledge.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ #objectlessons #lawrenceweiner #gerryschum #televisiongallery #Fernsehgalerie #tothesea #identifications #danflavin #donaldjudd #robertmorris #minimalart #minimalism #conceptualart #conceptualism #panzacollection @jeffreyweiss000 @nespector @stringarilena @juddfoundation https://www.instagram.com/p/CRKTD9NMh94/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Rightfully he may be called one of the true pioneers of Video art.

Because of his early contribtions to the collection of the Stedelijk Museum resulted in an exhibition ( which catalogue is available at http://www.ftn-books.com) and the hsitory and development of Video art during the last 50 years. Th Stedelijk has made a permanent presentation of his :

LAND ART. FERNSEHAUSSTELLUNG I

Schum made Land Art as part of his Fernseh-Galerie Gerry Schum. The German television station Sender Freies Berlin broadcasted this film on 15 April 1969. Schum was looking for a way to show modern visual art to a wide audience. He achieved this by broadcasting his film and video productions on television, bypassing the traditional institutions. The TV programme showed recordings of artistic interventions in the landscape by eight artists, including Jan Dibbets, Barry Flanagan and Richard Long. Schum’s own sober camera work is an essential element of the visual end result. Jan Dibbets’ contribution 12 Hours Tide Object with Correction of Perspective shows a tractor leaving behind a trapezium-shaped track on a beach. The position of the camera and the effect of the perspective mean that the viewer sees this shape as a rectangle. Dibbets was casting doubt on the reliability of representation via the camera and on the perception of the eye, as he had done previously in his ‘perspective corrections’.

It takes time to appreciate Video as an art form , but when you finally do so , there is an artist not te be missed and that is Gerry Schum.

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btw. The Gerry Schum catalogue was designed by Wim Crouwel.

Gerry Schum ( 1938 -1973) Rightfully he may be called one of the true pioneers of Video art. Because of his early contribtions to the collection of the Stedelijk Museum resulted in an exhibition ( which catalogue is available at www.ftn-books.com) and the hsitory and development of Video art during the last 50 years.