AROTIN & SERGHEI – Infinite Screen

A clean, minimalist table of contents for a book, spread across two pages. The heading CONTENTS is centered at the top. The entries are organized in two columns, listing sections such as Introduction, Intermedial Paintings, and Large-scale Installations, with titles and corresponding page numbers aligned to the right.

A two-page book spread about an art exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. The left page is a large photo showing the museum's iconic exterior, with its exposed pipes and scaffolding, overlooking a public square with a tall, white rectangular sculpture. The right page features text titled Introduction, with a smaller inset photo of four men at the exhibition's opening.

A two-page spread from a book about the Infinite Screen project by artists Arotin & Serghei. The left page contains several paragraphs of text. The right page displays a vertical, abstract digital artwork titled Life Cells, 2017. The piece features a luminous, soft-edged column of bright blue and white light glowing against a deep blue background. A caption is printed below the art.

A two-page magazine spread about the art of AROTIN & SERGHEI. The left page contains text titled Symbolic and socio-political dimensions, alongside three smaller photos of their art installations. The right page features a large photo of a gallery exhibition, where a crowd looks at a tall, vertical column made of glowing pink and red light boxes.

An open art book spread displays two abstract pieces. On the left, a small image on a white page shows a glowing, blurry circle surrounded by white digital glitches on a black field. On the right, a large four-panel painting hangs on a concrete wall, featuring a similar theme with a much larger, diffused light shape in blue and orange, overlaid with nested white squares and scattered static.

A two-page spread from a book. On the left, an orchestra is silhouetted against a large screen displaying a digital projection of a grid of white lights receding into perspective. A conductor stands on a podium. On the right is a page of text with a small photo of two men standing in an anechoic chamber.

A two-page book spread showing three artworks related to music and light. At the top left are two pages of a hand-drawn musical score with notes and diagrams. Below is a photo of a man playing a piano in front of a vibrant abstract light projection in pink and red. The right page shows a dark photo of a light installation with glowing green, purple, and red lights on a metal frame.

A two-page spread from an art book. The left page is black with a block of white text discussing art. The right page features an abstract painting titled Pink Vibration, showing two glowing, blurred vertical bars in shades of pink and orange-red against a vibrant red and dark purple background.

A split image of an art installation. On the left, a framed artwork depicting glowing blue vertical light bars hangs on a white gallery wall above a modern console table made of clustered dark metal pipes. The right side shows a close-up of the artwork, emphasizing the soft, ethereal quality of the blue light against a dark background.

A two-page catalog spread for the Ars Electronica exhibition, Infinite Screen. The left page features a large photo of an orchestra performing in a dark concert hall, with a large screen above them displaying a blue and green abstract digital artwork with geometric lines. The right page contains columns of text describing the exhibition, along with two smaller inset photos of the venue's exterior at night and a crowd in the lobby.

A night view of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, a grand building with a domed roof, set against a deep blue sky. A large, circular, and colorful light installation with intricate geometric lines is projected onto the museum's facade. In front of the building stands an ornate monument with several bronze statues, and dark green bushes are visible in the foreground.

An ornate, baroque-style room with red damask walls, dark wood paneling, and a polished parquet floor, serving as an art gallery. Two large crystal chandeliers hang from the ceiling, illuminating several pieces of modern, luminous abstract art with geometric and digital patterns that contrast with the classical decor. An open doorway reveals an adjacent gallery space.

A two-page book spread about the art exhibition Infinite Screen, Gateways to Elysium at Palais Rasumofsky, Vienna. On the left, a large photo looks up from within a grand hall with ornate columns and crystal chandeliers, focusing on a vibrant, colorful abstract art screen installed in the ceiling. The right page features text about the exhibition, a floor plan, a black and white photo of the palace exterior, and a photo of another modern art installation in a white room.

A symmetrical view of a high-tech, modern interior with a central black wall featuring a two-tiered grid of glowing blue digital screens that display abstract watch-like gears and mechanisms. The central display is flanked by dark, reflective, textured walls that shimmer with blue light, all illuminated by bright horizontal LED light strips.

A two-page book spread. The left page shows a Gothic cathedral at night, its facade illuminated by a vibrant, multi-colored light projection resembling digital stained glass. The right page contains text under the title Infinite Screen | Impressions | Dialogues avec Monet and includes a small image of an abstract digital composition.

A two-page spread from a publication about the art installation Infinite Screen | Vertigo. The left page has a black background and features a large photo of an orchestra performing on a dimly lit stage in front of a wide screen displaying vibrant, vertical color bars. The right page has a white background with descriptive text and two smaller inset images.

AROTIN & SERGHEI - Infinite Screen

From Light Cells to Monumental Installations at Centre Pompidou

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By (artist): AROTIN & SERGHEI

Edited by: AROTIN & SERGHEI

May 2023, 304 Pages

Hardcover

248mm x 308mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-4545-1

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| Let there be light! The artist duo's unique light installations

AROTIN & SERGHEI's Infinite Screen reflects contemporary visuality. As an evolutive inter-medial installation, it investigates the idea of the infinite beyond the limits of our screens, the origins of light and the iconography of digital information. Like luminous and transcendent symphonies of light, their intermedial works of art describe both, the macrocosm and the microcosm of our world, using screens as symbols and portals to infinity within constantly evolving parameters of scientific, mythological, philosophical, and architectural frameworks.
This book retraces the artist's supraliminal work-in-progress, from the intermedial paintings of red, green, and blue Light Cells—the DNA of today's visual language—to the monumental installations at Ars Electronica, the Venice Biennale, the Fondation Beyeler, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, and at Centre Pompidou Paris.

EXHIBITION
Kraftwerk Berlin
26.-30.4.2023
Opening and Book Presentation 26.4. 19h