Artists' Fellowship - 1989
Printmaking/Drawing/Artists Books
Artist Statement:
Liberation through imagination.
More about the Artist:
Stefan Roloff pioneered the blending of painting with digital media. After moving to New York in 1982, he developed Moving Painting, a process in which a painting is set in motion by filming each stage that it passes through during its creation. He received international recognition for this concept and collaborated with musicians Peter Gabriel, Suicide, Martin Rev and Andrew Cyrille.
For his series of Cibachromes in which elements sampled from his own paintings were transformed into digital photographs he received a NYFA fellowship. His painting and installation work was shown at the Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou and other places.
Portraits are an essential part of Stefan’s work. In his digital photo series “When 6 is 9” he photographs his models in both private and public settings. Then, he composes both pictures into one, showing people’s subconscious reactions to their environments.
His last documentary film, “The Red Orchestra”, portrays his father's survival of Gestapo prisons and interrogations for belonging to one of the largest resistance groups against the Nazis in Germany. Moving black and white drawings form an important part of this work, replacing re-enactments. For further information, visit the film's web site.
Currently, Stefan works with musician Martin Rev on a live audiovisual collaboration in which music and images communicate as international languages that are free from translations.
He is also working on a new film, "Fast Motion", about the relativity of time and memory. In it, he visits forest people who were catapulted from stone age into modern mass society inside a perilous jungle. As always in his work, this film will go hand in hand with an installation. For Stefan’s last installation visit its web site.
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