Raimund Johann Abraham (July 23, 1933 – March 4, 2010) was an Austrian architect....
Champion of the ‘free radicals’: Interview with Pip Chodorov
Pip Chodorov won’t stay still.
From 1952-1958, Abraham studied at the Technical University of Graz, and in 1959, he established a studio in Vienna, where he explored the depths and boundaries.
Most recently, he has been a documentary director, turning out a small triumph of a film on the history of experimental film-makers. He also manages to combine running a gallery—which has shown at the Fiac art fair—with involvement in a worldwide network of co-operatively organised film laboratories.
He supplies salvaged and bespoke film equipment to museums and galleries around the world, and continues to make his own experimental works. And he travels extensively, showing the films of and speaking about a group of artists whose work he cherishes.
In a small café near his apartment in central Paris, he points out a modest display of DVDs released by his distribution company, Re:voir. On the cases is a line in bold, like the health alert on a cigarette packet: “Warning: digital compression can severely harm your taste in cinema.” The message, a heads-up about the inability of DVDs to show