THE COLLECTION
Rodney Graham (Canadian, born 1949)
Rheinmetall/Victoria 8
- Date:
- 2003
- Medium:
- 35mm film (color, silent), Cinemeccanica Victoria 8 film projector
- Duration:
- 10:50 min.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder
- MoMA Number:
- 1095.2005.a-b
- Copyright:
- © 2013 Rodney Graham
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
November 21, 2007–July 28, 2008
This film depicts a 1930s German typewriter made by Rheinmetall that Graham found in a junk shop. "It was just this incredibly beautifully made, solidly designed typewriter. Not one key had ever been pressed on it," he has said. His filmed homage is projected with a 1961 Victoria 8 projector issued by the Italian company Cinemeccanica, a mechanical wonder that Graham has described as "very beautiful, kind of overly powerful." "It's these two objects confronting one another," the artist has said of the installation. "Two obsolete technologies facing off."
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