Florian Hecker
12 Feb - 28 Mar 2010
© Florian Hecker
Installation at Chisenahle Gallery, 2010
Co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London and Galerie Neu, Berlin
Photo: Andy Keate
Installation at Chisenahle Gallery, 2010
Co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London and Galerie Neu, Berlin
Photo: Andy Keate
FLORIAN HECKER
12 February – 28 March 2010
Preview Thursday 11 February, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham.
Hecker's new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception. At Chisenhale Gallery he will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that lead the visitor around the gallery space, where each work exposes a fault line in the traditional categorizations of auditory events, auditory objects or streams.
The works range from a 5-channel piece where the perceptual organisation of a sequence of tones changes according to the position of the visitor to an apparently monophonic piece in which a single, directional loudspeaker points towards a tiled section of the wall; here, the localisation of the emitted sound oscillates between the speaker and the reflective white surface. 2 x 3 Channel consists of two separate 3-channel pieces which rotate simultaneously - one clockwise, the other counter clockwise - around three speakers. A seemingly ever upward moving sonic structure alternates with a sequence of tones illustrating Diana Deutschs Tritone Paradox. The final 2-channel piece, Magnitude Estimation, features a voice reading the loudness values of a given sound. These same utterances are emitted synchronously from an opposing loudspeaker, creating an auditory chimera while doubling the voice, the signification and the measurement of what one hears.
The display of loudspeakers - either suspended from the ceiling or wall mounted - creates a multimodal amalgamation of auditory and spatial components, constructing an invisible architecture within the gallery, where boundaries are demarcated by the transitions between one sound work and another.
Hecker was born in 1975 in Kissing, Germany. Working in performance, studio and installation, he frequently collaborates with acedemic researchers in auditory perception and computer music, as well as with other artists such as Russell Haswell, Carsten Holler and Cerith Wyn Evans and Aphex Twin. He has presented his work internationally including most recently at the 53rd venice Biennale; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Evento, Bordeaux, France; The Morning Line, Youniverse, 3 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de sevilla, Spain; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2009); Manifesta 7, South Tyrol, Italy, (2008); Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, France, (2006). Forthcoming exhibitions for 2010 include MMK: Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany. Hecker is also a regular performer and has an extensive discography including Haswell & Hecker, Blackest Ever Black, Warner Classics (2007) and his most recent release Acid in the Style of David Tudor, Editions Mego (2009).
This exhibition is co-commissioned with IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Realised with generous support from Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Goethe Institut and Meyer Sound Germany
Chisenhale Exhibition Partner 2010
Outset Contemporary Art Fund
12 February – 28 March 2010
Preview Thursday 11 February, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Chisenhale Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Florian Hecker, his first in a UK public institution, comprising a new installation of sound pieces co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham.
Hecker's new commission continues his investigation of sound in relation to the body and space, employing idiosyncratic psychoacoustic propositions in order to examine and disrupt spatial perception. At Chisenhale Gallery he will present a series of four independent, electro-acoustic works that lead the visitor around the gallery space, where each work exposes a fault line in the traditional categorizations of auditory events, auditory objects or streams.
The works range from a 5-channel piece where the perceptual organisation of a sequence of tones changes according to the position of the visitor to an apparently monophonic piece in which a single, directional loudspeaker points towards a tiled section of the wall; here, the localisation of the emitted sound oscillates between the speaker and the reflective white surface. 2 x 3 Channel consists of two separate 3-channel pieces which rotate simultaneously - one clockwise, the other counter clockwise - around three speakers. A seemingly ever upward moving sonic structure alternates with a sequence of tones illustrating Diana Deutschs Tritone Paradox. The final 2-channel piece, Magnitude Estimation, features a voice reading the loudness values of a given sound. These same utterances are emitted synchronously from an opposing loudspeaker, creating an auditory chimera while doubling the voice, the signification and the measurement of what one hears.
The display of loudspeakers - either suspended from the ceiling or wall mounted - creates a multimodal amalgamation of auditory and spatial components, constructing an invisible architecture within the gallery, where boundaries are demarcated by the transitions between one sound work and another.
Hecker was born in 1975 in Kissing, Germany. Working in performance, studio and installation, he frequently collaborates with acedemic researchers in auditory perception and computer music, as well as with other artists such as Russell Haswell, Carsten Holler and Cerith Wyn Evans and Aphex Twin. He has presented his work internationally including most recently at the 53rd venice Biennale; BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Austria; Evento, Bordeaux, France; The Morning Line, Youniverse, 3 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de sevilla, Spain; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2009); Manifesta 7, South Tyrol, Italy, (2008); Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris, France, (2006). Forthcoming exhibitions for 2010 include MMK: Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt, Germany. Hecker is also a regular performer and has an extensive discography including Haswell & Hecker, Blackest Ever Black, Warner Classics (2007) and his most recent release Acid in the Style of David Tudor, Editions Mego (2009).
This exhibition is co-commissioned with IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Realised with generous support from Arts Council England, The Henry Moore Foundation, The Goethe Institut and Meyer Sound Germany
Chisenhale Exhibition Partner 2010
Outset Contemporary Art Fund