Artforum, July 1st, 2006
COLOGNE
Clemens von Wedemeyer
KÖLNISCHER KUNSTVEREIN
Michelangelo Antonioni, as film critic Urs Richter once wrote, is the photographer among European directors: Image composition dominates montage and the moment wins ont over chronology. Clemens von Wcdemeyer's 55-mm film (transferred to video) Silberhöhe (Silver Heights), 1003, cites the closing scene of Antonioni's L'Eclisse (1962.): Moments of waiting in which the passing of time becomes palpable. The Amonioni citation sets the tone tor a cinematic sketch of a concrete-slab housing development in eastern Germany, built between 1979 an...
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