“MONA LISA” by Toshio Matsumoto
Title:
- MONA LISA
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Creation Year:
- 1973
Duration:
- 3min. color
Artist Statement:
Mona Lisa is a video art work produced on the basis of the painting masterpiece with the same title, using SCANIMATE for the first time in Japan. At the time of production I was interested in using a simple, still object out of which to spin a rich moving image.
This work, produced by complex image synthesis on a frame basis for the visual representation of a surrealistic psychedelic world, was presented at the world’s first international video art symposium “Open Circuit” (1974) held in New York Museum of Modern Art, where it enjoyed a sensational reception.
Toshio MATSUMOTO from “EXPANSION & TRANSFORMATION” (Fukui International Video Biennale Executive Committee / 1989)
