2 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 16.5x12x5cm by ZIMOUN

Today we present a video from Studio Zimoun's new project. Zimoun's installations are experimental explorations about sound, material and space, many of which we have published in earlier occassions and which you can see on the links below. Zimoun is currently on display at Bourgogne, France and Miami, USA.

Zimoun is a contemporary artist with a studio located in Bern, Switzerland. He is most known for his sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw, industrial materials such as cardboard boxes, plastic bags, or old furniture, with mechanical elements such as dc-motors, wires, microphones, speakers and ventilators.

Zimoun is currently on exhibition at Urban Sounds: Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourgogne, France (November 23, 2013 - January 26, 2014) and at Espace Expression: Galerie Denise Renée Paris, Miami, USA (December 3, 2013 - March 29, 2014).

Next displays will take place between February and May 2014 at Beall Center in LA, USA, 43 m3 Project Space in London, UK, Audiograft in Oxford, UK, and Usinesonore, Malleray-Bevilard, Switzerland.

CREDITS.-

Authors.- Studio Zimoun.
Materials.- Motors, steel, cardboard, felt, battery.
Dimensions.- 17cm x 40cm x 15cm / 6.7" x 15.7" x 6".
Studio production.- Janis Weidner. Featuring Till Hillbrecht (proband).

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. ZIMOUN

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.