《Voice In The Mirror》
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Exhibition Period: 21 February - 2 March 2016
Private View: 21 February 2016, Thursday, 6:00-9pm Venue: LemoArt Gallery, Danziger Str. 63, 10435 Berlin, Germany |
To celebrate the opening of a new exhibition, "Voice in the Mirror: A Union of Sound and Image", we invite you to join us for an evening of intimate art viewing, stimulating conversation, drinking and live music at LemoArt Gallery. Curator Juliette Wallace will be there to give private tours and the artists will be around to explain their own works. This will be the first time that any of these paintings will have been seen by the general public!!
What is Voice in the Mirror?
Voice in the Mirror is an art experiment which focuses on the union of music and image. Using as a spring board the birth of the album cover as artwork, Voice in the Mirror aims to find the relationship between visual and sonic art. Considering the principles of synaesthesia, a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to experiences in a second cognitive pathway (specifically chromesthesia: sound to colour synaesthesia) artists with tendencies to translate sound visually have been commissioned to create artworks which respond directly to music. The exhibition is split into two parts: Part I - Albums and Artworks, and Part II - the Synaesthetic Code. Each element of the show works towards answering the question: which came first, the music or the image?
In Part I, five albums from the last five years were selected based on their album art being both painterly and integral to the total image of the musicians. As many artists were assigned an album each from this selection based on questionnaires and responded to these records through a blind listening test. No prior knowledge of the musicians or album artwork was allowed them, ensuring a purely perceptive and personal response to the music. Part I is set up so that each artwork faces its corresponding album cover. In this way, the curious space between image and music is reduced to the size of a room.
Part II focuses on the work of two artists following an experiment in which one song was deconstructed and translated into a synaesthetic code: the artists were played a selection of notes from the chosen song in random order to which they assigned colours from a given palette. The track in its totality was then played back to the artists who produced a painting relating to the music through their previous colour associations. Short notes (like a pluck) are represented as dots or dashes and long notes or chords as lines or blocks.
Created specifically for LemoArt gallery and put on by Tundo Curating, "Voice in the Mirror" is the first exhibition of its kind.
-By Curator Juliette Wallace 2016
What is Voice in the Mirror?
Voice in the Mirror is an art experiment which focuses on the union of music and image. Using as a spring board the birth of the album cover as artwork, Voice in the Mirror aims to find the relationship between visual and sonic art. Considering the principles of synaesthesia, a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory pathway leads to experiences in a second cognitive pathway (specifically chromesthesia: sound to colour synaesthesia) artists with tendencies to translate sound visually have been commissioned to create artworks which respond directly to music. The exhibition is split into two parts: Part I - Albums and Artworks, and Part II - the Synaesthetic Code. Each element of the show works towards answering the question: which came first, the music or the image?
In Part I, five albums from the last five years were selected based on their album art being both painterly and integral to the total image of the musicians. As many artists were assigned an album each from this selection based on questionnaires and responded to these records through a blind listening test. No prior knowledge of the musicians or album artwork was allowed them, ensuring a purely perceptive and personal response to the music. Part I is set up so that each artwork faces its corresponding album cover. In this way, the curious space between image and music is reduced to the size of a room.
Part II focuses on the work of two artists following an experiment in which one song was deconstructed and translated into a synaesthetic code: the artists were played a selection of notes from the chosen song in random order to which they assigned colours from a given palette. The track in its totality was then played back to the artists who produced a painting relating to the music through their previous colour associations. Short notes (like a pluck) are represented as dots or dashes and long notes or chords as lines or blocks.
Created specifically for LemoArt gallery and put on by Tundo Curating, "Voice in the Mirror" is the first exhibition of its kind.
-By Curator Juliette Wallace 2016
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