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点火 "ignition", (2019)

俄罗斯联盟号宇宙飞船是如今使用最多的的空间发射器，从1966年初次登台至今它经历了超过1800次的飞行， 远超于其他任何火箭发射器。60多年前，俄罗斯发射了第一颗人造轨道卫星，接着又将第一位人类送入了太空，并因此开启了太空竞赛。联盟号宇宙飞船是一个多级发射器，设计为极高的可靠性，用于载人和无人任务。几十年来，发射器历经了数次设备升级。自2011年美国航天飞机机队退役以来，联盟号火箭及其航天器是唯一能够将宇航员送往国际空间站的发射器。2005年欧洲航天局和俄罗斯联邦航天局批准了库鲁的圭亚那航天中心最后一发射联盟号火箭。新地坪的施工于2011年4月完成。联盟号火箭发动机在燃料组件被引入燃烧室前几秒钟由电引发的烟火照明弹点燃。在启动序列期间，支撑支架跟踪火箭的运动，当火箭和发射设施形成一个单一的动力系统时，为发射腾出了道路。

作品“点火”视觉化了 2019年4月5日联盟号发射器从法属圭亚那的欧洲太空港起飞的过程。V22号任务将四颗通讯卫星送入轨道。运载火箭高46米，重300吨。这张照片精确捕捉到了火箭离开发射台的时刻。为了达到最大推力，所有四个助推器都在升空前点燃。为了捕捉到这一独特的图像，一个由声音触发的摄像机被直接安装在发射塔的顶部，在火箭关键的发射阶段，发射塔距离火箭只有80米远。在此之前，从未在太空港的发射台上如此近距离地安装相机。构图突出了在点火和发射的最初几秒钟内由发射台、支撑支架和火箭本身形成的单一交互动力系统。支撑支架刚刚打开释放火箭，强大的火焰照亮了支架，烟雾从火焰沟中逸出，包围着白色闪亮的火箭。虽然漆成橄榄绿，但由于液氧和火箭推进剂之间的反应，火箭推进剂覆盖在一层冰层中，在发射过程中变成白色。这幅作品给人一种强大的加速度和静止不动的同时性的矛盾印象：巨大的压力，强烈的热量和震耳欲聋的声波都是有形的，然而火箭本身似乎被冻结了，悬浮在时空中。

The Russian Soyuz rocket is now the world's most used space launcher with over 1800 flights since its debut in 1966, far more than any other rocket launcher. More than 60 years ago, the Russian launcher initiated the space race by launching Sputnik, the first satellite placed in orbit, and then by sending the first man into space. Soyuz is a multistage launcher, designed to extremely high reliability levels for use in manned and unmanned missions. Over the decades, the launch vehicle has been through several upgrades. Since the retirement of the American Space Shuttle fleet in 2011, the Soyuz rocket and its spacecraft has been the only launcher capable of flying astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station. In 2005, the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency gave final approval for the launching of Soyuz rockets from the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou. Construction of the new pad was completed in April 2011. The Soyuz rocket engines are ignited by electrically initiated pyrotechnic flares a few seconds before fuel components are introduced into the combustion chamber. During the start sequence the support brackets track the movement of the rocket, freeing the way for lift-off when the rocket and the launch facility form a single dynamic system. 

The artwork "ignition" visualizes a Soyuz launcher taking off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 5th April 2019. Mission V22 delivered its payload of four communication satellites into orbit. The launch vehicle is 46 meters high and weighs 300 tonnes. The picture captures the rocket at the exact moment it leaves the launch pad. All four boosters are ignited before lift-off to reach full thrust. To capture this unique image, a sound-triggered camera was installed directly on top of the launch tower, a mere 80 meters from the rocket during its critical lift-off phase. No camera has ever been installed before at such close range on a launch pad of the Spaceport. The composition highlights the single interactive dynamic system formed by the launch pad, the support brackets and the rocket itself during the first seconds of ignition and lift-off. The support brackets have just opened to release the rocket, powerful flames illuminate the brackets while the smoke escaping through the flame trench envelops the white shining rocket. Although painted olive green, the rocket turns white during lift-off due to the reaction between liquid oxygen and rocket propellant which covers the vehicle in a layer of ice. The artwork gives a simultaneous contradictory impression of powerful acceleration and motionless standstill: the tremendous pressure, the intense heat and the ear-splitting sound wave are all tangible, yet the rocket itself seems to be frozen, suspended in time and space.

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Michael Najjar (b. 1966) works and lives in Berlin, Germany. Najjar’s photo and video works exemplify and draw on his interdisciplinary understanding of art. His pictorial language of form and content guides the viewer into a complex construction of simulated reality which is generated by the montage of multiple image sources and elements. He removes the photographic image from its historical viewing conventions and resituates it in a fundamentally new mode of perception. Fusing science, art, and technology into visions and utopias of future social orders emerging under the impact of cutting-edge technologies, Najjar takes a complex critical look at the technological forces shaping and drastically transforming the early 21st century. 

Najjar has exhibited at Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona; the 2006 Venice Biennale’s 10th International Architecture Exhibition; the 9th Havana Biennale; the 7th International Moscow Biennial; Academy of Arts, Berlin; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle Hamburg / Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg; Deichtorhallen International Museum of Photography, Hamburg; Marta Museum, Herford; Edith Russ Site for Media Art Oldenburg; Museum of Art, Tucson; Science Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Birmingham; New Media Art Institute, Amsterdam; FORMA International Centre for Photography, Milan; Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva; Museo DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca; Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Málaga; Museo Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca; National Museum of Science, Taipei; Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. 

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