Introduction
David Claerbout's exploration into the technological image merges experimental cinema, video installation, digital animation and information-based live streaming. His unique approach is presented in this comprehensive exhibition at the Konschthal Esch, Five Hours, Fifty Days, Fifty Years, which serves as an encapsulated overview, and includes both earlier and recent works, as well as his newest work: The woodcarver and the forest. The film is made through a combination of filmed footage, AI-generated extension and CGI. It captures three different days in a period of thirteen years during which a forest surrounding a woodcarver’s modernist villa will be depleted as its trees will be used to make wooden objects.
On the occasion of the exhibition, a special book about the different chapters, disciplines, techniques, and fields of knowledge comprising Claerbout’s practice will be published by König Books.