Voyaging Out – timelapse film
With improvisation the keystone of Marco Crivello’s artistic practice, viewers are often fascinated to know more about the journey his paintings take, before reaching the gallery wall.
For this commission, which followed from his solo exhibition, Possible Worlds in 2008, the client was keen to have an accompanying visual diary of the painting’s evolution. The recording of stages of Opened Ground coincided with the filming of Threshold, a film that Four Square produced with Last Bus about Marco Crivello’s working methods in the studio, in which the painting appears. It was an ideal opportunity to develop this sequence of images into a short self contained feature, entitled Voyaging Out to which experimental electric cellist, Bela Emerson, then improvised the soundtrack.