Luc Courchesne : Anamorphosis
18 Feb - 13 Mar 2021
Luc Courchesne, 2004/03/11-1, London, Savile Row, 2004, Digital print on translucent acrylic disc and rotary device, 24 x 24 in.
Luc Courchesne's panoscopic journal was born from the project of learning to look at the world with this anamorphic optic that embraces it in its totality and plunges into it at will.
While looking for a way to simplify the capture and projection of a panorama, I had the idea at the end of the century of an optic that would allow a single camera to record the whole of what is seen around an observer: a catadioptic mirror would create an image of the entire horizon in the form of a disc which, once projected into a hemisphere, would restore the original landscape. It is the genesis of the Panoscope, the immersive projection device that allowed me to embrace the great artistic tradition of landscape.
Begun during a creative resurgence in Japan in the year 2000, this exploratory research continues to this day.
PFOAC presents here unpublished works from the panoscopic journal accompanied by objects and photographs that illustrate the genesis of this practice and its applications in the whole of my work.
While looking for a way to simplify the capture and projection of a panorama, I had the idea at the end of the century of an optic that would allow a single camera to record the whole of what is seen around an observer: a catadioptic mirror would create an image of the entire horizon in the form of a disc which, once projected into a hemisphere, would restore the original landscape. It is the genesis of the Panoscope, the immersive projection device that allowed me to embrace the great artistic tradition of landscape.
Begun during a creative resurgence in Japan in the year 2000, this exploratory research continues to this day.
PFOAC presents here unpublished works from the panoscopic journal accompanied by objects and photographs that illustrate the genesis of this practice and its applications in the whole of my work.