The Gallery of Everything invites you to the opening of its first new project for 2019: STUDIES IN VERBERATION [ stop || look || listen ].
A visual investigation into the memory of sound, STUDIES IN VERBERATION features constructions by the seclusive French maker ACM, alongside performative line drawings by Frankfurt-based draughtsman, JULIUS BOCKELT.
The project will be accompanied by a series of films, performances and artistic experiments. For more details please contact the gallery.
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A cosmic auditory resonates through the work of the two artists. One maker reclaims apparatus manufactured for the transmission of sound. The other takes sound, as it exists for him, and transforms it into the objectified line.
From a formal perspective, little connects them. Yet their physical formats contain a sense of future and memory, of observation and recollection. It is as if, under the gaze of the viewer, they react and communicate.
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ACM is a pen name, acquired for and acknowledged by the artist’s closest circle. It denotes a practice, a relationship. Yet the acronym serves to blur further his new archaeology. Like the work, the worker rebuts simple definition.
Dig and there is disclosure: a childhood, a family, an education. The artist’s way is warm, yet his words shield. Verbal language tightens the throat, so form is language. It speaks of rejection and refusal, of reclaim and re-use.
Our senses complete these cities which are not. It is we who balance on the cheap white platforms. Creatures, perched above, recall a forest invisible. The still air beneath holds bombs, macaws, memos and radio bands.
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Modest fields of study fascinate JULIUS BOCKELT. This performative penman consumes the daily surround to assemble a silence. Tiny packets of light-handed lines track precise observations of phenomena. They echo his interior.
BOCKELT-time is malleable, suspended, distorted and stratified. These, his analyses, abide by idiosyncratic principles. They embed and channel sense-memory. They turn the fleeting into ink on paper. We acknowledge art.
BOCKELT’s performances add further evidence. Bubbles give birth, breathe and breed. Dust assembled spins in servitude. It is the artist as a god of small places. We read and we listen. The awkward magnificence verberates.
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ACM
b 1951 (France)
As a young man, ACM left his academic studies to follow a philosophical calling. The artist and his new wife settled in the remote village of his childhood, where he constructed a home studio from the ruins of his father’s old workshop.
It was here that ACM began a lifetime investigation into his imaginary past. At the heart of this practice lay an empathy and fascination with the discarded and forgotten.
The guts of defunct typewriters, telephones, radios and clocks were accessed, accumulated and acidified. The elements then transcended their origins, as strange architectures offered them the chance of life anew.
ACM modestly christened his oddities boulots, as if the result of some daily chore; yet they were clearly something more. The hitherto unknown maker soon had work acquired by La Collection de l’Aracine, which then become part of the permanent collection of Lille Metropole Museum.
ACM continues to work today from his studio. His artwork is held in numerous private and public collections in France and worldwide, including La Collection de l’Art Brut (Lausanne) and Collection Antoine de Galbert (Lyon). Exhibitions include La Maison Rouge (Paris) and The Museum of Everything (London, Paris, Rotterdam, Hobart).
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JULIUS BOCKELT
b 1983 (Germany)
JULIUS BOCKELT is an emerging art maker whose diverse and observational practice has evolved at Frankfurt’s leading assisted studio, Atelier Goldstein.
BOCKELT began his experimental studies into the anatomy of sound in 2002. In these semi-performative events, he created acoustic interference which he then translated into meticulous freehand drawings. For BOCKELT, these visual equivalents offered an interface between sound and vision; and addressed the fabric of auditory perception.
As BOCKELT's process evolved, he approached his scientific research with the creative openness of artistic enquiry. It came to include photography and performance, alongside drawings, sound pieces and musical experiments.
In 2011, BOCKELT began to document cloud formations over the Frankfurt sky. In an ongoing archive that today contains almost 30,000 images (and the recent subject of an exhibition at Museum Wolfgang, Essen), the artist examines the topic of naturally-occurring phenomena.
BOCKELT’s recent studies into bubble behaviour affects the structure and movement in playful experiments that give duration to fleeting phenomena.
BOCKELT’s work has been included in exhibitions worldwide, including the Museum Folkwang (Essen), La Maison Rouge (Paris) and Guangdong Museum of Modern Art (Guangzhou).
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