CD and 50 page catalogue with photographs of the installation by Ela Bialkowska in a plastic DVD box.
Released by Galleria Nicola Fornello and Allquestions.
"John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff have been operating in an ever-changing creative sphere for more than twenty years, expressing themselves through diverted codes, overdone to the point of absurdity, yet subtly tacit and keenly mingled. The rhythm of their art stems from a strong vision, from an aesthetic journey resulting from extreme and accurate personal experiences; the variability of the rhythm represents the unbalance caused by doubt as the element that unceasingly questions certainty. Their activities spread out in countless directions, taking in conventional style in order to immediately subvert it. The subversion mostly involves the conventional perception and contextual location of expressive forms, complying with the need for a boundless creative fluency.
For the exhibition in Prato, the artists have agreed to arrange their works in the same exhibition space: a strong impact and a finely expressed sensitivity are features of these two installations. John Duncan's See is a video installation made up of four separate and simultaneous projections of sequences taken from the John See Series, a series of adult movies he directed in 1986-87 during his stay in Japan. On entering the dark exhibition space, the viewer is assailed by immense flashes of images and sound cut-ups... In those moments in which the sound is softer, a voice emerges, whispering Japanese phrases until it is drowned once again by the wave of louder sounds. Carl Michael von Hausswolff's Thinner & Low Frequency Bar / Glue & High Frequency Lounge consists of two bars made of steel and glass on which lie bottles and cans containing volatile substances... glue and thinner. On the bar two oscillators produce frequencies varying in intensity, whose sound penetrates the ears altering normal perception levels. Both works fill the space perfectly, one by means of strong images (See), the other through the substances shown. The attention level is at its maximum in attempts to grasp the Japanese whispering (See) and the ghost-sounds of the oscillators (Thinner Bar...), defying the threshold of audibility as they act on the unconscious." * Daniela Cascella [extract from the catalogue]
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