HORIZONS
Interactive installation
Intervention #4
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
1 March – 16 November 2008
Geert Mul 2008
The museum Boijmans van Beuningen invited the artist Geert Mul (1965) to create an interactive installation. ‘Horizons’ is an intervention within the museums classic collection: Collection One.
Geert Mul selected works of art from the Museum’s collection that feature a horizon and and integrated them into the database of his artwork. Specially developed software fuses the horizons and processes them into projections on the wall. Visitors activate the work by moving through the space. As they approach the projected image, the landscapes fragment, thus establishing a direct link between body and image. Representations of landscapes from the entirety of art history pass by on the horizon. Through this installation, Mul explored the boundary between the concepts of ‘collection’ and ‘database,’ within the context of how an exhibition relates to interactive digital art.
Through this installation, Mul explored the boundary between the concepts of ‘collection’ and ‘database,’ within the context of how an exhibition relates to interactive digital art. The installation was inspired by the work of artist Ger van Elk in the 1999 ‘Speurtocht naar een horizon’ exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. With Van Elk’s installation aligning the horizon lines in his paintings at the same height, challenging the viewer’s perception of the landscape genre.
Software: Carlo Prelz
Production: Mothership
Audio mastering: Gideon Kiers
With thanks to Sjarel Ex and galerie Ron Mandos.
