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Vangeli considers her art to be a continuous entity. To some extent, a wonderfully designed book belongs with this tape. The book shows that this is part of a homage to Andrej Roeblov, the Russian icon painter who was honoured many years ago by the cineast Andrej Tarkovski in a splendid black & white and colour CinemaScope production. Vangeli couples this with reflections on traditional Christian images, not as sources of inspiration for theological debate but as factual confirmation of the dualistic concepts on which they are based. After all, Jesus lived in a Manicheistic world. Dichotomies like God as cause or transcendency, contradiction or harmony are ultimately reconciled in the human face of the Epiphany. Vangeli gives a worldly twist to such considerations by taking culture as the focus. From a Pop-Art-like point of view, she runs through fifteen centuries of heritage: from Hitler to Mona Lisa, from Dali to medieval wood carvings, they all flash past the breathless viewer. Mankind is a mask, and that, in its turn, is a symbol of power A man wonders what people will say after he is dead. "A wise man, has left an emptiness, etcetera?" "Bull shit, everything is a sham." But sometimes, the illusion is blinding.
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Erik Daams
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Light, Editing Achim Ehlert, Music Gainda, Afroton, With Mirko Mikovic, Caspar Arnhold, Production ACI/Frankfurt
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