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Roland Quelven
Videoartist of the Month August 2020
Videoartist of the Month August 2020
Roland Quelven
Roland Quelven entered Wilfried’s videoart cosmos in 2010, so in 2020 10 years collaboration in the field of art can be celebrated – a very long time. Wilfried is remembering when Roland’s first submission arrived, he recognized immediately his special artistic talent in creating real audio-visual works. Many videoartists do not pay much attention to the audio component, many others see audio as necessary evil, but a minority tries to touch more than the visual sense. The visual components – a collage of different kind of footage, often other artists, for instance, the video- and performance artist Isabel Perez del Pulgar contributed – are very filigree – and Wilfried recognized immediately the problem to screen such fragile HD components in the usual screening quality at that time – DVD. And nearly this fact had been a reason, why Wilfried was about the decline the submission, luckily he didn’t, and gave these complex creations a chance – and after some time HD became the video standard and suddenly the bright beauty of Roland’s videos could be presented to a wider audience. Roland belongs to those rare cases, that Wilfried could accompany the artistic developments during many years – when Wilfried released a new project mostly also a new video by Roland Quelven was included – dealing in a very delicate way with the filigree textures and subtle coloration. So, after the past 10 years of walking on common paths in the field of moving images – and holding 11 videos in total in his hand, Wilfried was thinking, now it’s the right time to honour Roland Quelven as the Videoartist of The Month August 2020 and present these videos to the festival audience for the first time in this constellation!
Hurray! And much success!
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