A visual parcours with drawings and animations
BERND SCHURER: +3200 – A sonified reading (installation) & 32 Minutes of scattered pieces (live)
26.01.2017, 19:00
ESPACE DIAPHANES, Dresdener Str. 118, 10999 Berlin
Exhibition opening with book launch, video screening and miniature electroacoustic quadrophonic sound intervention by Bernd Schurer.
The exhibition focuses on Netzhammer’s recent book ‘Concave Thoughts. 357 Digital Drawings’, an artist’s book which exists in an edition of 32 varied front covers and with 3200 permuted sets on 32 printed sheets. The exhibition shows the book as an object, as a pocket universe for reflection, chuckling and musing, and will interrelate the book object with the artist’s animations.
Like Netzhammer’s work in general, the digital drawings shown in the book and in the exhibition, open up to a widely-ramified cosmos of poetic imagery by showing surreal constellations drawn with the utmost precision and clarity. Sometimes these drawings are near to total abstraction, sometimes playful, funny, and nightmarish at the same time. They mix different levels of reality by melding living creatures with machines, intertwining objects and animals, interlocking the human and the object, leading the viewer into the interplay of strangeness and identity, genesis, metamorphosis and resemblance. Last but not least the drawings uncover the contradictions of medially subverted authorship and subjectivity.
Exhibtion: Januar 27th to March 3rd
Regular Opening Hours:
Wed to Fri: 2pm to 6pm
Sat: 11 am to 4pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/226706274404974/
The book:
http://diaphanes.de/titel/concave-thoughts-2851
More from Diaphanes:
Part of CTM Vorspiel:
https://www.facebook.com/Vorspiel-transmediale-CTM-1542384379420868/?fref=ts
Yves Netzhammer:
Yves Netzhammer, born in 1970, studied Art at the Zurich College of Art and Design. Since 1997, he has been working on a widely ramified, poetic cosmos of imagery. His video installations, objects, slide shows and drawings fascinate through their bodily charisma and their formal clarity. The playful recombination of elements which seemingly can not be combined leads to the threshold of our existence’s dark side: soothing aspects interlock with displeasing ones, the dead melts with the alive into creatures never seen before, and the depicted scenarios run from microscopic to giant scales.
Solo exhibitions include LWL, Münster (2016), Kiev Biennale, Kiev (2015), MONA, Tasmania (2013), Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai (2013), Kunstmuseum Luzern (2011), Kunstmuseum Bern (2010), Palazzo Strozzi (2009), SFMOMA, San Francisco (2008), Venice Biennale (2007), Karlskirche Kassel (supporting program documenta 12, 2007), Museum Rietberg, Zürich (2006), Kunsthalle Bremen (2005) and Helmhaus Zürich (2003). Group exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale (2010), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2007), Witte de With and TENT, Rotterdam (2006), Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2006) and National Gallery Prague (2005). Yves Netzhammer lives and works in Zurich.
Bernd Schurer:
Bernd Schurer’s transdisciplinary artistic focus lies on the work with sound in a broad spectrum of different contexts: a constant shift via research and experimentation, strongly investigating the experiential relationship between sound, science, cognition, space and the (human) body. There is a strong fascination in the study of the perception of sound itself, and there are numerous artistic projects in domains like Algorithmic Computational Art, Psychoacoustics, Electronic Music Composition, Sonification and Audio-Visual Representation Systems. Presentations may come in the form of Computer Music Diffusion to installation work to abstract Sound Art. Some of it has been exhibited internationally on various scales, from micro galleries to public space, from “art at home” to the Venice Art Biennial. Since 1996 he was a co-editor and curator for electronic music works for the domizil.ch label in Zürich, together with Marcus Maeder. He also is active in the domains of sound design and composition for Film and through various curatorial projects. He has been working with Yves Netzhammer on a multitude of projects since almost 15 years.
Bernd Schurer (born 1970 in Zurich, lives in Berlin) studied Philosophy and Film Science at the University of Zurich and Visual Art at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts as well as Electroacoustic Composition and Theory at the Zürich University of the Arts.
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