Szajner, born in 1944, towards the end of a war, in a cave under the name of Wolf, a borrowed identity...
Autodidact, fascinated by the early automatons, theatrical machinery, magic lanterns, fairway creations - great spectacles which form the emergence of his taste for fleeting images: apparitions, disappearances, mysteries...
1970 - abstraction from chemistry:
"temptation of alchemy" ; pigments mixed with unstable spirits, solutions, crystals (resorcinol, acetanilide) liquified by heat, to create volatile paintings in light projected directly on the architecture. Performances in the Paris Planetarium- Paris
" Bespiel ", creation for the Electronic Arts Festival in Rennes - France
1980 - abstraction from physics: creation of an instrument which brings forth music from light. Sans canvas, the walls, dematerialised, become waves.
"Brute Reason", creation for the Lyrical theatre of London
"The Hunting of the Snark", creation for the Printemps de Bourges
1990 - searching for artificial life:
creation of computer-operated contemporary automatons in an obsessional quest for the interaction of false and living.
"spirit of the revolution", creation in the Paris Tuileries Gardens for the Bicentennial Mission...
2000 - painting with obscurity:
creation of an opera : complex composition of machinery, text, dance, video, projected images on virtual screens.
"l'étoile de ceux qui ne sont pas nés" - National Stage, Valenciennes
"Commemoration of the liberation of the concentration camps" - Paris
2003 - treating illusions:
solitary labour, towards installation-type works combining digital memory, stepping motors, electroluminescence, electro-mechanics, optical illusions, video, paper, writing, Chinese shadows...
"no longer seeking to be seen, but to gently fade away"
2007: abstraction from " phenomenal " technology in the service of obscurity. Crossing the threshold of the cavern, exposing oneself, after an infinite delay... "one second from absurdity", Exhibition, LC Gallery, Paris
Josef Veil
SZAJNER
