Open Reel
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- Open Reel
- Otvoreni kolut
- 1976
- video, b&w, sound
- 4min, 30sec
In the early video works, the analytical and tautological nature of the medium came fully to the fore. In "Open Reel" of 1976, concealment and masking took place behind the artist’s own image. The figure of the artist gradually disappeared, as if behind some terrorist’s mask, behind the tape winding around a fake second reel—the artist’s head—while he slowly turned the table. N.B.