The weight of the bridge
Exhibition view: Shadow Soundings, Bill Fontana, MAAT Oval Gallery, 2017
Shadow Soundings, the new international commission for MAAT’s Oval Galle...
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Exhibition view: Shadow Soundings, Bill Fontana, MAAT Oval Gallery, 2017
Shadow Soundings, the new international commission for MAAT’s Oval Gallery, is an immersive sound and video installation by American artist Bill Fontana, which was created from the sounds and vibrations of the 25th of April Bridge and the Tagus River. In this installation, especially created for Lisbon, the artist captures the sonority of the bridge and surrounding areas - so familiar to the city’s residents - and amplifies them until they acquire a musical quality.
Bill Fontana is renowned worldwide as a pioneer in artistic experimentation with sound. Fontana is an artist who “captures the sound of things”, as he likes to say. His vast career as a sound artist includes solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney, among many others. Known for his large-scale sound installations, Fontana has created site-specific works such as Harmonic Bridge, which he presented in 2006 at Tate Modern, in London.
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Shadow Soundings, the new international commission for MAAT’s Oval Gallery, is an immersive sound and video installation by American artist Bill Fontana, which was created from the sounds and vibrations of the 25th of April Bridge and the Tagus River. In this installation, especially created for Lisbon, the artist captures the sonority of the bridge and surrounding areas - so familiar to the city’s residents - and amplifies them until they acquire a musical quality.
Bill Fontana is renowned worldwide as a pioneer in artistic experimentation with sound. Fontana is an artist who “captures the sound of things”, as he likes to say. His vast career as a sound artist includes solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney, among many others. Known for his large-scale sound installations, Fontana has created site-specific works such as Harmonic Bridge, which he presented in 2006 at Tate Modern, in London.
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billgardam
January 11, 2018
Interesting, we see the bridge image at first and only later clue in to understand we are in another space, that it is a photograph of a photograph. We look to photography as a replica of reality and get disturbed when we realise that it is all illusion, that all those images we see are manipulated by the maker of the image. We are seeing a point of view. Oh oh I feel the world sliding out from under my feet! Art.
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MJLara
January 11, 2018
Is it true? your sage comments are beginning to produce the first results? Thank you very much!:)
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