DA VINCI<\/u>, 2012
\n35mm Film, colour 5.1, Dolby Digital
\n25 min
\nCourtesy the artist, Galleria Zero, Milan and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin<\/p>\n
The lead in Yuri Ancarani\u2019s film \u201cDa Vinci\u201d is a sophisticated technological surgical system named after the Italian polymath. When performing an operation with the \u201cda Vinci Si Surgical System,\u201d the surgeon does not have direct contact with the patient\u2019s body. He instead guides the highly precise instruments from a console. A high-definition video feed from area of the operation, which is performed using micro-invasive technology, gives the surgeon a magnified view of the procedure. Ancarani uses these shots for his film whose documentary approach explores the existential relationship between man and machine. The video artist captures the visible and delicate anatomical structures in shades of blue, thereby creating a level of distance between viewer and film. A thudding, threatening bass underscores the palpable tension among the team of doctors present in the operating room and carries it over to the viewer\u2019s own body. In contrast to pessimistic visions of a future in which robots replace mankind, Ancarani\u2019s work visualizes surgeon and operating instrument as a synergetic entity and thus departs from a mere contrast of man and machine. Ancarani\u2019s trilogy, of which \u201cDa Vinci\u201d is the third part, reflects on the subject of labor through its portrayal of three highly specialized occupations. In addition to surgeons, \u201cIl Cappo\u201d (2010) films the crew of a marble quarry and \u201cLuna\u201d (2011) records the daily routine on a deep-sea platform.<\/strong> At the focal point of all three films are the choreographed gestures that comprise the process of working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DA VINCI, 2012 35mm Film, colour 5.1, Dolby Digital 25 min Courtesy the artist, Galleria Zero, Milan and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin The lead in Yuri Ancarani\u2019s film \u201cDa Vinci\u201d is a sophisticated technological surgical system named after the Italian polymath. When performing an operation with the \u201cda Vinci Si Surgical System,\u201d the surgeon does …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,310,311,134,148,314,301,309],"class_list":["post-29127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senza-categoria","tag-body-me","tag-da-vinci","tag-da-vinci-si-surgical-system","tag-frankfurter-kunstverein","tag-franziska-nori","tag-man-and-machine","tag-the-body-in-the-age-of-digital-technology","tag-yuri-ancarani"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fkv.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}