Jean-Pierre Gauthier
dal 14/5/2010 al 25/6/2010
Segnalato da
14/5/2010
Jean-Pierre Gauthier
Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square, Cambridge
Turbulures / Aspirations is a suspended installation constructed out of silver-coated ventilation tubing crisscrossed by electrical and audio cables. The installation is designed to respond to the acoustic environment of the gallery. A series of eight microphones have been placed in the aspiratory outlets of each section of tubing to record ambient sounds and turbulence in their proximity.
Turbulures / Aspirations is a suspended installation constructed out of silver-coated ventilation tubing crisscrossed by electrical and audio cables. The installation is designed to respond to the acoustic environment of the gallery. A series of eight microphones have been placed in the aspiratory outlets of each section of tubing to record ambient sounds and turbulence in their proximity. The captured sounds are digitized and manipulated using Max, a music and multimedia programming language modified by the artist with technical assistance from Avatar.
Each sample is spatialized before being broadcast via a set of eight speakers. The process generates a selection of sporadic and unpredictable sounds that evoke animal noises, muffled voices and heavy breathing funneled through the twisted lengths of flexible tubing. Aspirations suggests the act of breathing but also implies desire and ambition. Gauthier’s work toys with these juxtapositions, defiantly celebrating the creative possibilities inherent in organized chaos. This is the first time the installation has been exhibited in Ontario.
The artist wishes to thank the Canada Council for the Arts, Avatar, Mériol Lehmann, David Jacques and Edith Roy for their support.
Jean-Pierre Gauthier was born in Matane, Quebec, in 1965, and has lived and worked in Montreal since 1986. His kinetic and audio installations refer to disorder, organicity and unpredictability. He was the winner of the prestigious Sobey Art Award in 2004 and a recipient of the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 2006. He has exhibited his audio and kinetic installations across Europe, Asia and North America. Since 1998, he has also collaborated with different musicians, including Michel F. Côté, Diane Labrosse, Martin Tétreault, Jean Derome and Mirko Sabatini, and these audio projects and installations have been presented in Italy, the United States and Canada. A retrospective of his work Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Machines at Play recently toured to the Akron Art Museum, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Mendel Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Prairie Art Gallery. The artist is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Artist’s Website: http://sites.google.com/site/jpgauthiermachines/
Image: Turbulures / Aspirations (detail), 2008, Flexible tubing, electric cable, audio cable, 8 microphones, 8 speakers, digital processor. Image courtesy of the artist
Media contact: Katrina Jennifer Bedford 519.621.0460 ext. 119 jbedford@cambridgegalleries.ca
Opening Reception Saturday, May 15 at 2:30 pm
The artist will be present at the public reception.
Cambridge Galleries Queen's Square
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