Emanuel Rohss: End Frames
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COMA is pleased to present End Frames by Emanuel Röhss, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Australia. With this project Röhss has turned to notions of cinematic space and imagination as well as concerns specific to the processes of painting. Throughout the past twelve months the artist has devised a body of work solely through the painting medium, which he has utilized to explore the dual cinematic ‘finale’ of narrative and imagery in movies. End Frames stems from the artist’s pondering on the essence of final frames: The End, so to speak.
The selection criteria for the artist was such that each film should display a finite end. For instance, the final scene had to convince the artist beyond reasonable doubt of the impossibility of a continuation of the plot: No sequel. This could be conveyed through entirely cataclysmic endings (Dr. Strangelove; Melancholia); end scenes where the protagonist(s) are removed from the world in which the story is set (The Quiet Earth); movies that end with the killing of the protagonist (The Wicker Man, Easy Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), but also less violent endings where the main characters leave everything behind in a more dreamy, erotic and ambiguous way (Blade Runner, True Romance,).
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