UNTITLED by Zimoun & Scheidler

Duo-exhibition featuring kinetic and sound installations

4 Jul 2013
1 Sep 2013

This summer, TETEM art space is showing a duo-exhibition by the internationally renowned Swiss artist and sound architect Zimoun, and German artist David Scheidler. The architectural installation by Zimoun, consisting of 100 cardboard boxes, dc-motors and cotton balls, creates an interplay between the artificial and organic, with an almost hypnotic effect. David Scheidler was inspired by the shape and sound of Zimoun’s work, making a sound installation using harmonious drone sounds and a kinetic wall sculpture inspired by the boxes. Both artists are fascinated by mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, industrial objects and technology. Zimoun and Scheidler’s works are always untitled. They interact with the viewer as an unique sensory experience.

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Zimoun_2011_80_motors_balls_cardboard_boxes - Installation view: Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, USA. Photo courtesy Studio Zimoun ©

«Zimoun creates complex kinetic sound sculptures by arranging industrially produced parts according to seemingly simple rules. Using motors, wires, ventilators, etc.., he creates closed systems that develop their own behavior and rules similarly to artificial creatures. Once running, they are left to themselves and go through an indeterminable process of (de)generation. These quasi autonomous creatures exist in an absolutely synthetic sphere of lifeless matter. However, within the precise, determinist systems creative categories suddenly reappear, such as deviation, refusal and transience out of which complex patterns of behavior evolve.» Node10
www.zimoun.net

«David Scheidler surpasses common media art by leading us into a new field, a new media art that plays with the ideas of high and low culture by researching the idea of the spectacle through technique. This minimalism in form and the ‘maximalism’ in content connect Scheidler’s work to several cultural currents that have dominated European culture in the last decades. He represents to us a new generation of internationally oriented artists who examine, with a special affinity for aesthetics, our cultural behaving and cultural change at large.» Peter Sonderen
davidscheidler.com

UNTITLED. Zimoun & Scheidler
04 July – 01 September 2013
Curator: Ella Buzo

Location: TETEM art space | Stroinksbleekweg 16 | 7523 ZL Enschede, the Netherlands
Opening hours: Monday – Sunday 11.00-17.00 | Entrance: free | www.tetem.nl