Konrad Smoleński Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More – Time Test
11.10 – 16.11.2014 Konrad Smoleński Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More – Time Test
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
artist: Konrad Smoleński
curators: Daniel Muzyczuk, Agnieszka Pindera
collaboration on the part of Zachęta: Joanna Waśko
A year after its presentation in the Polish Pavilion in Venice, Konrad Smoleński's sculpture has evolved into a project presented successively at the CentrePasquArt in Biel (6.07–17.08.2014) and Zachęta – National Gallery of Art (11.10–16.11.2014). In both these locations, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More has transformed in order to convey the key characteristics of each particular space. Ever-present elements in this structure are two traditional bronze bells and rows of wide-band speakers accompanying them. A new component in the versions of the project presented this year, meanwhile, is a vibrating wooden platform that also serves as a stage for a series of performances commissioned from outstanding contemporary composers and musicians. This type of duet with the installation has already been performed by: Mats Gustafsson (saxophone), Andrea Belfi (percussion) and Hilary Jeffrey (trombone). In Warsaw, Audrey Chen and Phil Minton (voice), Yaninis Kyriakides (electronics) and Andy Moor (guitar), and Stine Janvind Motland (voice) will perform in interaction with the sound sculpture. Each performer works in a different way with the delay and repetition of sound that is at the base of Konrad Smoleński's installation which, in the basic version of the exhibition (without the presence of live musicians), works through the manipulation of the strike tone of the bell. By transforming this familiar noise, the artists changes its meaning: this sound, full of diverse significations, when submitted to manipulations becomes abstract and deprived of connotations. In the liberation of the signal from its source use is made of its delay and reverberations, amassing simultaneously a cumulative acoustic wave that endows the sound with a real mass during its emission into the ether.
Konrad Smoleński
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More – Time Test
11.10 – 16.11.2014
Zachęta – National Gallery of Art
pl. Małachowskiego 3, 00-916 Warsaw
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