Jeff Zilm / Black Leni Riefenstahl

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Offline Object Advisory is pleased to announce the pop-up exhibition, Black Leni Riefenstahl, by American artist Jeff Zilm. The single painting exhibition will be on view in Berlin during Berlin Art Week with an opening on September 16th at 7:00 PM, Bizetstrasse 22 near Antonplatz. Exhibition hours on Friday the 17th and Saturday the 18th are 12-6 PM.

Black Leni Riefenstahl is a large monochrome diptych, created from the atomized images and soundtrack of Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi-era propaganda film Triumph of the Will. Zilm acquired the rare 8mm print in 2010 via online auction. The film was transformed from celluloid to viscous form in a chemical bath prepared with water sourced from Berlin’s Zoo Palast Cinema, the theater which premiered the film. The resulting liquid state comprised all of the content, both images, and sound, of the film in its entirety. In this form, it was ‘projected’ onto the canvas using an HVLP industrial spray system in the artist’s Charlottenburg studio. During the course of the exhibition, the painting will be presented without comment.

Triumph of the Will premiered at Zoo Palast in 1935. Public screening of the film has been restricted in Germany. It is, however, readily available for streaming online via YouTube and DailyMotion. Currently on view at the Zoo Palast Cinema is Dune, Fast and Furious 9, and Space Jam: A New Legacy.

SEE ALSO: nu-contra-figuration, diegetic exorcism, long-focus lens distortion, Berlin Document Center, low IQ Painting, anti-fungibility, the Duchampian Singularity, incorruptible and defiled granularities, retinal math, Victory of Faith, Yellow Movies, telephone interview with David Culber, black blacker blackest square, Walter Ruttmann, Jerry Lewis, the painting itself, vibration aesthetics.