Visions of Sound : Noises, Rhythms and Acoustic Ambients
Posted on March 13 2023
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Visions of Sound : Noises, Rhythms and Acoustic Ambients │ February 17 - March 23, 2023
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Curated by Antonio Muratore, Silvia Colombo
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Reality, as we live it (and absorb it) in our everyday life, is an all-embracing dimension, where visuality - colours, movements, tri-dimensionality - coexists with sounds and experiences that follow one another, day after day.
But what happens when one of these components is going missing?
The group exhibition “Visions of sound”, open at Spazio Millepiani in Rome starting from the 17th February, tries to give us an answer. Or maybe to raise further questions and reflections… We will know that only after completing an exhibition visit, centred around the relationship between visions and sounds.
The exhibition itself apparently shows nothing new, being this dialogue already the centre of attention since the 19th century. In fact, from Wagner on, the concept of “Gesamkunstverk” let artistic disciplines being on the same level, interwoven with each other, from painting to music, from sculpture to dance and so on. Later on, it has been up to points of references such as the Bauhaus the ‘institutionalisation’ of this interdisciplinarity, creating a model for the decades to come. Thus, what’s new with “Visions of Sound”?
But what happens when one of these components is going missing?
The group exhibition “Visions of sound”, open at Spazio Millepiani in Rome starting from the 17th February, tries to give us an answer. Or maybe to raise further questions and reflections… We will know that only after completing an exhibition visit, centred around the relationship between visions and sounds.
The exhibition itself apparently shows nothing new, being this dialogue already the centre of attention since the 19th century. In fact, from Wagner on, the concept of “Gesamkunstverk” let artistic disciplines being on the same level, interwoven with each other, from painting to music, from sculpture to dance and so on. Later on, it has been up to points of references such as the Bauhaus the ‘institutionalisation’ of this interdisciplinarity, creating a model for the decades to come. Thus, what’s new with “Visions of Sound”?
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Evan Hume, Project Oxcart (SR-71), 2020
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Here it is interesting to see how sounds are being interpreted and incorporated within the visuality in such different ways. Along the exhibition space, a wide, interpretative range of various choices is immediately noticeable, going from the ‘all-literal’ to the ‘all-symbolic’. The ideal exhibition itinerary starts with the artists keeping the sounds alive, bringing them into their production and letting the visitor enjoy videoart works, where the images are accompanied by music and movements, harmony and disharmony, organic as well as artificial features. In some other cases, new languages are created thanks to AI, leading to post-futuristic compositions where the repetition of some words becomes an imperfect, fascinating melody. Music without notes.
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Anil Duran, Instant, 2018
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Another significant part of this exhibition is also the one including the art pieces that show a documentary intent, restituting a delicate work and demonstrating how music can be approached even by those who cannot hear any sounds. That is because visuality, but also touch and movement can provide for the notes that are missing, or silent or never listened to.
And yet, on another level, there are the symbolic and evocative pieces that tend to transmit the sound in a purely visual way: through a series of images, our brain gets tickled to the point that it produces imaginary sounds. They are there, surrounding us, but just in our imagination. It is up to us giving them life.
Overall, it is somehow paradoxical that the synergic work of such distant artists is leading to a choral harmony echoing inside and outside us.
And yet, on another level, there are the symbolic and evocative pieces that tend to transmit the sound in a purely visual way: through a series of images, our brain gets tickled to the point that it produces imaginary sounds. They are there, surrounding us, but just in our imagination. It is up to us giving them life.
Overall, it is somehow paradoxical that the synergic work of such distant artists is leading to a choral harmony echoing inside and outside us.
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Raffaella Romano, Liquid Sun #1, 2022
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Anna Poroshina, Islands, 2022
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Julieta Tetelbaum, Black Chalk, 2022 │Watch the Video
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Ayse Meltem Yıldız, Music of Colors, 2010
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Michael Cheung, Dark Rhythm
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Inbal Kristin, Rhythm, Musical Beat, 2022 / Violeta Morano, Cherry Coloured Funk, 2021 / Sam Montalbetti, Playtime #45, 2022
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Dasha Pears, Rings on the Water, Sending the Signal, Into the Blue, 2021
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VISIONS OF SOUND
:NOISES, RHYTHMS AND ACOUSTIC AMBIENTS
February 17th - March 23rd, 2023
Millepiani - Via N. Odero,13, Rome - IT
linfo@millepiani.eu
+39 06.888.17.620
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