Les indomptés de facebook | Bande annonce
Les indomptés de facebook | trailer
A first appoach to social media. Nearby entirely shot in New York City. …continue reading
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André Werner | worksSelected works of art by André Werner. You may refine the selection by choosing to display only live streams, installations, video art, overhead installations, mixed media, objects, photographs, Polaroids, stills, projects or collaborations. Often a specific group of works span over several sub genres. You’ll find associated tags at the bottom of each entry that allows to see an entire group of art regardless of the media or material. The pieces shown here are mainly media art. Paintings, drawings and painted over photographs will be added over time. If you look for a specific work of art don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Selected works of art by André Werner. You may refine the selection by choosing to display only live streams, installations, video art, overhead installations, mixed media, objects, photographs, Polaroids, stills, projects or collaborations. Often a specific group of works span over several sub genres. You’ll find associated tags at the bottom of each entry that allows to see an entire group of art regardless of the media or material. The pieces shown here are mainly media art. Paintings, drawings and painted over photographs will be added over time. If you look for a specific work of art don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Installation based Photographs
Installation based Photographs | Editions Several of my installations served as the base for photographs. Frozen frames that capture a single moment of the works in motion. These photographs, usually printed in small editions, exist … Continue reading “Installation based Photographs”
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Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema
The first edition, La Femme et Le Fou, of my new series of interactive video installations entitled Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema was shown in Berlin as part of the … Continue reading “Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema”
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Girl with a Video Camera (II) | What Remains Of Cinema #4
Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema #4 | Girl with a Video Camera (II).
The interactive video installation will be shown at the C.A.R. art fair, 25. – 27. October. …continue reading
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Girl with a Video Camera | What Remains of Cinema #4
Girl with a Video Camera at the Mitte Media Festival 2019
The fourth installment of the series What Remains of Cinema, an interactive video installation. …continue reading
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Goldcoast | The secret temple
Life is calm in the secret pavilions and palaces of the Goldcoast, the lower eastern shore of the Lake Zurich. Like in this hidden temple of the wealth in Küsnacht. A frozen fairy-tale.
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What Remains of Cinema #3 | El Viaje de Venus
El Viaje de Venus | The Journey of the Venus
The third installment of the series What Remains of Cinema, an interactive video installation. Based on an image of a Ledischiff (freighter ship) on the Lake Zurich. …continue reading
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Autopoiesis | What Remains Of Cinema #2
Autopoiesis, like its prequel La Femme et Le Fou, is an interactive closed circuit installation. An old black-and-white TV set and an analog video camera are directly connected opposite to each other, creating a feedback loop in a closed circuit. The single frame of this edition, a selfie image of a nude girl standing in front of the mirror in a changing cubicle, is printed on an overhead sheet and placed, hanging on thin thread, between the camera and the monitor.
Thus, the image, which in itself reflects an autopoietic system, becomes part of the loop, jumping into the TV, immediately reborn in the camera, an autopoietic beauty. …continue reading
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Autopoiesis | What Remains Of Cinema #2
Was vom Kino übrig bleibt | What Remains Of Cinema #2 Autopoiesis The second work from my series What Remains Of Cinema, Autopoiesis, will be shown for the first time at the C.A.R. media art … Continue reading “Autopoiesis | What Remains Of Cinema #2”
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Yeosu Mandalas | necessity community territory
André Werner | The Yeosu Mandalas The Yeosu Mandalas are three silent video loops. necessity | community | territory. Based on a closed-circuit installation of a camera interacting with a black and white tv-set. A … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandalas | necessity community territory”
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Circles | Installation for 13 monitors and a curious person.
Circles. You may find yourself. The Collector of pictures had begun to live very much in seclusion; he had locked himself in and started living among his pictures. He simply needed his suitcases about, and … Continue reading “Circles | Installation for 13 monitors and a curious person.”
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The Most Noble Subject
Part of A Girl As An Independent Creation, an ongoing series of portraits of self-portraits. Snippet from the remaining text: “Der Mensch als das höchste Geschöpf ist auch der vornehmste Gegenstand solcher Darstellung, in und … Continue reading “The Most Noble Subject”
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Autopoietic Beauty
A Girl As An Independent Creation The title of the image refers to the last line of the first book page, “mehr als selbstständige Schöpfung”, which translates into “rather as an independent creation”. A somehow … Continue reading “Autopoietic Beauty”
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Infundere | Zwingli Church
Infundere shows caustics (light reflexes) caused by falling drops in a bowl of water. Infundere was first shown as part of the exhibition Raumlektüre at the Zwingli Church. André Werner, “Infundere”, 2016, overhead-projector, water, infusion … Continue reading “Infundere | Zwingli Church”
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Yeosu Mandala | Necessity
Necessity silent loop, 2014, part 1 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Necessity by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Necessity”
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Yeosu Mandala | Community
Community silent loop, 2014, part 2 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Community by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Community”
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Yeosu Mandala | Territory
Territory silent loop, 2014, part 3 of 3 of the Yeosu Mandalas. Yeosu Mandala | Territory by André Werner, created for and shown first at the 5th. Yeosu International Art Festival, September 2014 at the … Continue reading “Yeosu Mandala | Territory”
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The Eyes Of Mankind
André Werner, The Eyes Of Mankind, 14 min 39 sec, DV, 2007 Starring Marbo Becker, Daniel Schubert and Nadya Cazan as the female lead.
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Viennese Catherine Window at Kafka’s House
The closed circuit installation Wiener Katharinenrad | Viennese Catherine Window is now on display at Kafka’s House (The house of Kafka’s birth). Installed as part of the group show “Spirits, Mystics and Muses” curated by Robert … Continue reading “Viennese Catherine Window at Kafka’s House”
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Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e was first shown as a multi-channel installation in 1996 at the Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin. This video is based on the original installation loops. Ukiyo-e, or ukiyo-ye (浮世絵, Japanese: “pictures of the floating world”), are … Continue reading “Ukiyo-e”
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Mannaka No Ie
Mannaka No Ie (The House In The Middle) “The crying swallow flies at dawn” Pure japanese poetry, entirely filmed in the deserts of Nevada. A video by André Werner, 8 min 17s, 2006, Japanese with … Continue reading “Mannaka No Ie”
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Portrait of a lady from a good family
Portrait einer Dame aus gutem Haus (portrait of a lady from a good family) Installation, overhead transparency, water, feather, vibrator, light, dimensions variable Created during an artist residence at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna. Shown during the … Continue reading “Portrait of a lady from a good family”
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Portrait of a lady from a good family II
projection loop | Vienna Art Week 2014, MuseumsQuartier Portrait einer Dame aus gutem Haus (portrait of a lady from a good family), shown at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna, during the Vienna Art week, November 2014, open … Continue reading “Portrait of a lady from a good family II”
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Portrait of a lady from a good family III
Installation view | Vienna Art Week 2014, MuseumsQuartier Portrait einer Dame aus gutem Haus (portrait of a lady from a good family), shown at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna, during the Vienna Art week, November 2014, open … Continue reading “Portrait of a lady from a good family III”
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Die Sitte des Bilderfressens
Die Sitte des Bilderfressens (The Custom Of Eating Pictures)
At the time of its creation, this video was foremost triggered by the rise of satellite television and the autopoietic multiplication of imagery through thousands of tv channels. Little did we know that this was just a foretaste of things to come. …continue reading
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Viennese Catherine Window | Wiener Katharinenrad
Viennese Catherine Window | Vienna Art Week. Wiener Katharinenrad | Viennese Catherine Window, a closed circuit installation created during an artist residence at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna. You can see the set up here. A rose … Continue reading “Viennese Catherine Window | Wiener Katharinenrad”
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Japanese Beauties
Images of Japanese Women transfered onto illustrations of the Jin Ping Mei (Kin Ping Meh). These small phototransfer/collages have been enlarged as cibachrome prints. All untitled, phototransfer/collage, ca. 11 x 15,2 cm | 4,3″ x … Continue reading “Japanese Beauties”
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From an Album of Aphorisms
Superimposed Autograph Book Aphorisms These are pages from an autograph book (or friendship book) from 1926. This book consists of several handwritten aphorisms and well-wishes, dedicated to the unknown owner. The single pages are superimposed … Continue reading “From an Album of Aphorisms”
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Honey
Honey Objects These Objects are jars, filled with honey. They contain anonymous portraits on overhead sheet. The jars are lit from the bottom. All, 12 cm x 11 cm, 4,72 x 4,33 in, Honey, glass, … Continue reading “Honey”
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Collages on Pages
mixed media, collages on pages from a 19th Century book about the relations between men and women. Both Aug, 1990
The Dream Of The Japanese Beauty
The Dream Of The Japanese Beauty | C.A.R. 2009 The Dream Of The Japanese Beauty was first shown as part of the opening of the c.a.r. 09, the contemporary art Ruhr, at the SAANA Building, Zeche … Continue reading “The Dream Of The Japanese Beauty”
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Time and Space
When rubbed off upon paper or heavy brass plates, photographs, foreign characters and graphical scriptures form a labyrinth of superimposed layers. The details are hard to make out. In one corner an aged diary entry can be found …continue reading
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Coup d’oeil
Just like in the story of Mr. Spinell*, who always averts his eyes in reflex when beholding something beautiful, such that only the arc of his eyelashes catch a glimpse of that which he decided to turn down. …continue reading
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Tattoos
In some videos, A. acts as a maker of tattoos. The meaning of “imprinting” is taken literally, as recordings of naked bodies are being covered with diverse scriptures by means of electronic manipulation. …continue reading
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Skin Deep | SX 70
Skin Deep, polaroid SX70 tryptich, ca.1988, 10,7 cm × 26,4cm | 4,2″ x 10,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)
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pola collages
Polaroid montages | SX70 All 1988, collages inside SX70 polaroids, 10,7 cm × 8,8 cm | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)
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Untitled (couple)
untitled (couple), polaroid SX 70, ca. 1993, 10,7 cm × 8,8 cm | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)
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3 Faces | SX 70
All polaroid SX 70, 1986, 10,7 cm × 8,8 cm | 4,2″ x 3,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″) mounted on SX 70 polaroid cartridge.
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Two Girls | triptych
untitled (two girls), polaroid SX 70 triptych, ca. 1991, 10,7 cm × 26,4 cm | 4,2″ x 10,5″ (image 7,9 cm × 7,9 cm | 3,1″ x 3,1″)
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filmography
All films by André Werner …continue reading
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Eine Geisha wird gefilmt
A kind of book adaptation.
It was by pure chance that I came across a book, titled Lasterstätten in Fern Ost (places of sin in Far East). Inside was an image of a Geisha sitting in a beautiful garden. …continue reading
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