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1/2/2012

Zimoun

Bitforms Gallery, New York

bitforms gallery is pleased to announce Volume, the first solo exhibition in New York by Swiss artist Zimoun. On view will be an immersive, site-specific sound installation based on prepared dc-motors and cardboard boxes.

Part of a series that received its U.S. debut in a solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum of Art this Fall, the installation emphasizes the grid as a method of visual organization. Precariously balanced rows of cardboard boxes form an architectural space containing a rumbling din produced by mechanical motors humming in unison.

Pulsing rhythmically, each unit in the system reverberates with its own sense of purpose and timing. Temporal microstructures emerge and shift, made visible by collective behavior. With minimalist and low-tech means, Zimoun constructs a blank zone of play utilizing repetition and the physical pressure of vibration.

As an author, Zimoun uses scale and tools of amplification to transform our associations with commonplace industrial objects. Tuned into kinetic and acoustic detail, his obsessive displays of collected materials unlock emotional potential in otherwise banal and chaotic gestures. In his work static volume permeates a space, yielding reductive clocklike operas of the everyday.

For the duration of the show, the gallery's project room on the 6th floor will also feature four mechanical works by the artist and a video.

Zimoun (b. 1977, Switzerland) is a self-taught artist based in Bern who builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Using simple and functional components, he explores mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems. Zimoun’s obsessive displays articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun's minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.

Press contact: Laura Blereau laura@bitforms.com (212) 366-6939

Opening Reception: Thursday, Feb 2, 6:00 – 8:30 PM

bitforms gallery nyc
529 West 20 th St New York NY 10011
Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM

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