Research Catalog

Title

Florian Hecker/John McCracken / Herausgeber: Sandro Droschl ; Übersetzungen: Dawn Michelle D'Atri, Thomas Raab.

Author

Hecker, Florian, 1975-

Publication

Berlin : Sternberg Press, ©2016.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• McCracken, John, 1934-2011
• Droschl, Sandro
• Künstlerhaus (Graz, Austria)

Description

39 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 cm

Summary

Following the 2015 exhibition 'Florian Hecker/John McCracken' at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien Graz, this publication probes the experimental capacity of the white-cube space of the gallery. For the exhibition, two complementary yet autonomous artists were brought into dialogue with each other: German artist and computer composer Florian Hecker, and the late American sculptor John McCracken. The fiberglass-coated, monochrome "planks" by McCracken spanned the floor and the walls of the building, evoking a juncture between painting and sculpture, while Hecker's computer-generated sound pieces dramatized both space and time. By combining the work of the two artists, a framework was created in which an aesthetic experience occurred between the shifting boundaries and intersections of sculpture and sound as they affected each other within a space consisting of geometric and architectural formations as well as temporal and subjective formations. At the same time, the viewer/listener became more sensitized to the conditions, qualities, and degrees of intensity between the physical and the ephemeral. The publication includes a curatorial introduction by Christian Egger, and a comprehensive essay by the author and curator of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, João Ribas. The cover has been designed by Florian Hecker using an objectness measure algorithm.

Subject

• McCracken, John 1934-2011
• Hecker, Florian 1975-
• Hecker, Florian, 1975- > Exhibitions
• McCracken, John, 1934-2011 > Exhibitions
• Klangobjekt
• Sound in art > Exhibitions
• Sculpture, American > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Ausstellungskatalog – Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien – 31.012015-05.03.205 – Graz.

Note

• Exhibition catalog.
• Contains no title page, title from cover.
• On the occasion of an exhibition held at Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, January 31 - March 5, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Parallel texts in German and English.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9783956792151
• 3956792157

LCCN

9783956792151

OCLC

• 953711261
• SCSB-10097664

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library