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PE LANG & MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI-ALEXANDRI
8 - 30 JAN 2022

PE LANG & MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI-ALEXANDRI

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  • Untitled n ̊ 7, 2019, by Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

    Untitled n ̊ 7, 2019

    by Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri


     video: Pe Lang

     

    "Untitled n ̊ 7 is situated at the intersections of sound art, performance and kinetic sculpture. It questions how an installation (fixed) or a sculpture can emerge out of a composition-performance (dynamic) and vice versa. It offers a sonic experience that oscillates between two poles: mechanical-precision and natural-organic behaviour. "

  • Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri return to Galerie Anhava with an exhibition showcasing a new, more organic art practice and identity.

     

    The analogue mechanics behind each work is built by hand, but it’s the materials and their interplay that takes the stage. As Lang puts it, the organic programming behind their kinetic artworks considers what could come after technology.

  • Swarm, 2020-21, by Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

    Swarm, 2020-21

    by Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

     video: Pe Lang

     

    Swarm consists of a matrix of black fibreglass shells, that move in unpredictable movements producing equally altering sounds. Each shell adjusts its own course to that of its neighbour, forming patterns that mimic the social logic of a mass of people in the street, or swarming creatures down at the bottom of the ocean. 

  • The starting point to the exhibition was to offer a visitor a chance to pause, to breathe and to experience something captivating and rejuvenating, an experience for the visitor to get absorbed in the magic of the colours, sounds and balance of movement. 

  • Pe Lang, LED | nº 5, 2021-2022
    Artworks

    LED | nº 5, 2021-2022

    by Pe Lang

    • Pe Lang Color | n ̊ 23, 2018 Motor, aluminum, light filter, mechanical parts 110 x 110 x 8 cm 1 + 1EA
      Pe Lang
      Color | n ̊ 23, 2018
      Motor, aluminum, light filter, mechanical parts
      110 x 110 x 8 cm
      1 + 1EA
  • Pe Lang, LED | nº 6 , 2021-2022
    Artworks

    LED | nº 6, 2021-2022

    by Pe Lang

  • "Not being able to have full control does not mean a limitation.


    It is exactly the openness and unforeseen quality of the resulting sounds that we are craving for."

  • Resonators | nº 2, 2019 , by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

    Resonators | nº 2, 2019

    by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

    • Pe Lang Random | nº 10, 2021 motor, thread, mechanical parts 82 x 9 x 9,5 cm
      Pe Lang
      Random | nº 10, 2021
      motor, thread, mechanical parts
      82 x 9 x 9,5 cm
  • LED | n ̊ 1, 2021, by Pe Lang

    LED | n ̊ 1, 2021

    by Pe Lang

      video: Pe Lang

  • Circular motion is central in all works of the exhibition. The rotation determines the pace of the movements it initiates, movements that then break on into different patterns, arrangements, rhythms and compositions, mirroring the rotation of celestial bodies or the passage of time.

    • Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri Untitled | nº 12, 2019 motor, speakers, mechanical parts 63 x 63 x 20 cm ed. 6 + 2 AP
      Pe Lang and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri
      Untitled | nº 12, 2019
      motor, speakers, mechanical parts
      63 x 63 x 20 cm
      ed. 6 + 2 AP
  • Human and Machine | nº 5, 2022, by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

    Human and Machine | nº 5, 2022

    by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

  • Despite being based in mechanics, the sculptures and installations have an organic, natural feel to them.

     

    There's a certain deep earthiness that comes through in various ways, be it via the organic materials such as bread, the pulsating movements resembling living organisms or the deep sounds bringing to mind a sleeping  large creature. 

  • Untitled no ̊12, 2021, by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

    Untitled no ̊12, 2021

    by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri

     video: Pe Lang

     

    In her site-specific installation Untitled no ̊12, Papalexandri-Alexandri creates a fascinating soundscape with seemingly simple elements: six twines are stretched from a rotating wooden construction and tied onto foam boards, that act as resonators to the micro sounds born from the circular movement and transmitted through the suspended twines. The motor as well as the surrounding foam boards stand on mic stands and bring a setting of a concert hall into the gallery space.

     

  • PE LANG

    photo: Christian Etter

    PE LANG

    PE LANG (b. 1974, Switzerland) combines hand built mechanic machineries, sound, and movement to the traditions of constructivism. His works are mechanical-kinetic pieces addressing the visual and poetic possibilities of matter, physics and mathematics. Based in Wald, Switzerland, Lang has been awarded twice with the prestigious Swiss Art Award and numerous other international grants and scholarships. His kinetic sculptures and installations have been exhibited in various galleries, museums, and festivals all over Europe, Northern America, and Asia, most recently at Galerie Denise René in Paris and Geneva, at Galerie Standing Pine in Taipei and Tokyo and in Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo in Venice.

     

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  • MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI-ALEXANDRI

    photo: Pe Lang

    MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI-ALEXANDRI

    MARIANTHI PAPALEXANDRI-ALEXANDRI (b. 1974) is a Greek-born composer and sound artist working in  Ithaca, NY and Zurich, Switzerland. Papalexandri's works interweave the borderlines of sound art, musical composition, visual objects and performance and explore the factors that link these art forms. She holds a Ph.D. in music composing and has been working as Assistant Professor of Composition and Sound Art at the Cornell University (NY). She has been awarded and recognized internationally with numerous awards, grants and scholarships and her art works and compositions have been presented in i.a. at the Basel Art Museum; Ashmolean Museum in Oxford; Musikinstrumenten-Museum in Berlin; at ISFA Hong Kong; San Francisco Art Institute; ZKM Karlsruhe and the Venice Biennale of Architecture.  

     

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