‘the wheel of fortune’ by christian boltanski at venice art biennale 2011 image © designboom
created for the french pavilion, paris-born artist christian boltanski presents ‘chance’ at the venice art biennale 2011. a thematic exploration of its namesake, this exhibition playfully explores the luck and fate of newborns, whose beginnings are subject entirely to chance. while the title translated in french has a positive connotation of luck and good fortune, the english interpretation conversely suggests hazard or risk, rendering the exhibition appropriately ambiguous.
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for ‘the wheel of fortune,’ the main room in the pavilion contains a moving loop of paper upon which hundreds of childrenʼs faces have been printed. traversing across structural steel piping, the strip stops randomly from time to time and an alarm sounds, illuminating one of the childrenʼs faces on an oversized screen. the process then starts over, until the walkway stops again and the alarm signals fateʼs next choice.
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indistinct from one another, the babies are incapable of making their own choices, yet each has the possibility of spotlighted, however briefly, in this installation.
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despite its mechanical system, the building’s design permits light rays to travel through and illuminate the babies’ faces, rendering an atmosphere that is lighter than boltanski’s previous works.
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‘the births’ by christian boltanski image © designboom
in two side rooms, oversized digital counters enumerate the worldʼs population for the diptych ‘last news from humans.’ ‘the deaths’ displays the world’s daily total of deaths in red, while ‘the births’ displays the counterpart figure in green. the numbers are tabulated every evening at midnight, with the number of births on average 200,000 higher than the number of deaths.
‘be new’ by christian boltanski image © designboom
‘be new’ is an interactive game, exploring determinism versus free will in the lineage of familial resemblance. as a screen projects a jumbled grid of fragments from both infant and elderly faces, viewers are challenged to click at the exact moment when a face is displayed in its complete composition. to induce global participation, the artist has also created a website for the game, boltanski : chance. lucky winners will be sent a surprise personally by the artist.
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— commissioned by institut français, the french pavilion is curated by jean-hubert martin and located at the giardini venue.
the 54th international art exhibition in venice, italy, runs until november 27, 2011.
Edwin Albert Flesh Jr. (December 4, 1931 – July 15, 2011), known as Ed Flesh, was an American art director and designer who worked on a variety of television programs from the 1950s through the 1990s. He is best known for designing the Wheel used in the game show, Wheel of Fortune.[1] In 1993, Flesh was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for his work on Supermarket Sweep.[2] His other credits as a television art director include Pyramid, Days of Our Lives, Press Your Luck, Celebrity Sweepstakes, Second Chance, The New Newlywed Game, To Say the Least, Name That Tune and Jeopardy!.[1]
Flesh was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was born on December 4, 1931.[1][2] He received his bachelor's degree from Franklin & Marshall College, located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1] Flesh then enrolled at Yale Drama School, where he studied graduate level scenic design for three years.[1]
Flesh relocated to New York City after completing his studies at Yale. He worked as a scene designer for off-Broadway productions before being hired as the 'supervisor of scenic design' for NBC.[1] He transferred from New York to NBC Studios in Burbank, California, where he worked as the head art director for game shows, as well as the soap opera, Days of Our Lives.[1]
Flesh is credited with conceiving and designing the wheel for NBC's Wheel of Fortune.[1] Flesh designed the wheel to spin 'horizontally instead of vertically', a design unlike most previous game show wheels.[1]
Flesh later designed the sets for The Montel Williams Show and The David Letterman Show, a short-lived daytime show on NBC which aired in 1980.[1] He also designed the sets for three special editions of The Oprah Winfrey Show, in which Oprah Winfrey interviewed John Travolta, Barbra Streisand and Madonna.[1]
Ed Flesh, who lived in Sylmar,[2] died on July 15, 2011, at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California, at the age of 79.[1] He was survived by his partner of forty-four years, David Powers.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefghijklmBarnes, Mike (2011-07-19). 'Ed Flesh, Designer of the Wheel on 'Wheel of Fortune,' Dies at 79'. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
- ^ abcSlotnik, Daniel E. (2011-07-21). 'Ed Flesh, Designed the Wheel of Fortune, Dies at 79'. New York Times. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
External links[edit]
- Ed Flesh at IMDb