Edith Dekyndt
dal 12/12/2012 al 1/2/2013
Segnalato da
12/12/2012
Edith Dekyndt
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana
The Painter's Enemy. The artist explores the notion of music as a sound inherently attached to biological forms, including flowers, and by extension human beings.
Galerija Gregor Podnar is proud to announce Edith Dekyndt’s solo
exhibition, The Painter’s Enemy at its Project Space / the DUM
Association in Ljubljana
Named after the Heuchera plant, which is also known in French as
L’ennemi du peintre, or alternatively, le desespoir du peintre by
virtue of its difficult to depict abundance and small blossoms, The
Painter’s Enemy is the byproduct of a desire to create a still life. A
conventional enough artistic impulse, especially for a northern
European, one might say, but this is not just any still life.
For
akin to the eponymous plant from which the project borrows its name,
it represents an unrepresentable abundance of material. Not only is it
formed and informed by various strains of scientific and musical
research, it seeks to register sonically, as opposed to visually.
The
elaborate, multi-faceted mechanism behind this still life is perhaps
best descried by curator Anthony Kiendl, who originally commissioned
the work for Contour 2011:
[In The Painter’s Enemy] Edith Dekyndt explores the notion of music as
a sound inherently attached to biological forms, including flowers,
and by extension human beings. In a short story from 1956, J.G.
Ballard describes a future time, where humans have learned to hear
melodies that plants spread around them. In 1990, physicist Joel
Sternheimer found that a specific melody can stimulate or inhibit the
synthesis of a protein within a living organism.
When the patterns of
plant molecules are transposed to a frequency audible to humans,
plants can ‘make music’. Dekyndt has, working with a composer and
arranger, transposed these ‘radio waves’ from certain flowers to a
score for the theremin, the radio-frequency instrument made famous in
Hollywood science fiction films.
"Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt has a most personal kind of methodical
fascination for physical phenomena and ephemeral incidents. In her
videos, audio pieces, installations and sculptural objects, she
studies amongst other things light and sound waves, as well as
minuscule particles without really manipulating them.
Most of the
time, she accelerates or decreases their recordings, or formally
enlarges these elements to make them visible to the naked eye. The
work of Edith Dekyndt concretely reveals itself as an attention paid
to the factual and the presence of simple physical elements: her work
draws on a form of minimalism and a conceptual visual language.
It
never aims at empirical results, but only at the presentation of these
phenomena. Dekyndt’s artistic praxis implies more than a simple
process of rationalization: her work continuously fluctuates between
objectivity and experience." Wim Waelput
More information: www.edithdekyndt.be
Opening: Thursday, December 13 at 7 PM
Galerija Gregor Podnar
Kolodvorska 6, Ljubljana
Opening hours: Tue – Fri / 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. and by appointment
Free Admission