Zimoun launched his new solo exhibition, which takes place at Klangraum Krems in Austria. The opening was last Thursday and they just finished the documentaiton video about the new, site-specific installation, presented in a beautiful old church. The exhibition runs from May 21 - July 26, 2015.

Zimoun’s organic installations and sound sculptures emerge in an interplay between mechanics, movement, and physically created sounds. They are delicate works with a poetic playfulness, simultaneously simple and complex, results of repetition and fine anomalies, routine and coincidence.
 

«The components used in Zimoun's work are simple, functional and raw, whereas only aesthetically high-level and purposefully chosen elements and materials are used in minimalist fashion. Through radical reduction, Zimoun creates works of art which allow for a plethora of associations without being pinned down to just one specific direction. Radical abstraction functions rather like a code in the background of things, thus elegantly avoiding an insinuation of direct, concrete attribution.»

Amanda Neumann


Although Zimoun uses very simple everyday and industrial materials, when combined their mutual interactions generate complex forms of sound and movement. He often works with a great number of identical mechanical elements, which he modifies in accordance with the site-specific works.


CREDITS. TECHNICAL DATA.-
 

Títle.- 150 prepared dc-motors, 270kg wood, 210m string wire, 2015.
Artist.- Zimoun.
Installation view.- Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche, Krems an der Donau, Austria.
Curated.- Jo Aichinger.
Project coordination.- Florian Bürki, Ulf Kallscheidt and Zoi Moutsokou.
Studio production assisted.- Jessica Bizzoni, Joris Stemmle, Zoi Moutsokou, Lugh O'Neil, Tanguy Clerc, Matteo Taramelli and Elisa Tangheroni.
Set-up assisted.- Florian Schmiedecker, Christoph Schedl, Ernst Steindl, Dominik Schöpf, Jochen Gruber, Liselotte Grand and Martin Klemmer.
Materials.- Motors, wood, metal, power supplies.
Dimensions.- Variable.
Photograph and video.- © Studio Zimoun.

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Zimoun, born in Switzerland in 1977, autodidact, lives and works in Bern. His work has been exhibited and performed on five continents, and has been recognized with awards from Bundesamt für Kultur/BAK, the Aeschlimann Corti Award, Prix Ars Electronica, and the Kiefer Hablitzel Preis from the Swiss Art Awards.

Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of curiously collected material, these works 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 blends effortlessly with electric reverberation in Zimoun's minimalist constructions.

Past exhibitions of his work have included the National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Vasarely Fondation, Aix-en-Provence; Haus für elektronische Künste, Basel; Nam June Paik Art Museum, Korea; Ringling Museum of Art, Florida; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art, Liechtenstein; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes; Museum Les Champs Libres, Rennes; Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond; Kunsthalle Bern; Museum of Fine Arts, Bern; bitforms gallery, New York; Galerie Denise René, Paris; Oboro Gallery, Montreal; National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest; Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul; Beall Art Center, Los Angeles; List Art Center, Brown University, Providence; CUNY Graduate Center, New York; Kunstverein, Mannheim; Metropolitan Arts Center, Belfast; Museum of Contemporary Art (MSUM), Ljubljana; Art Basel, Switzerland; and the Museo d’Art, Lugano; among others.

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Published on: May 26, 2015
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