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Forth Bridge - Cinema. Metric Space
Artist: Dieter Appelt (born 1935)
Location: Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Date: 2004
Materials: gelatin silver prints framed in 8 panels & digital version of 35mm film on DVD
Dimensions: 150 x 400cm (excluding DVD)
Grant:
Amount Paid: £25,000 (Total: £57,354)
Vendor: Galerie Thomas Schulte
Review number: 5823 (2006)
Provenance:
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin.
Description:
This intricate work comprises 312 separate gelatin silver prints assembled in a photographic montage of the Forth Bridge, one of Scotland's iconic architectural structures. Each print is taken from a 35mm film shot by Appelt from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge. The composition of the work uses metrical sequences derived from mathematics and music.
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