Bielefelder Kunstverein presents Luke Fowler & Toshiya Tsunoda imprint/field/surface on view 19 November 2011–29 January 2012.
The exhibition entitled “imprint/field/surface” shows film and sound installations, photographs and photo collages by the artists, Luke Fowler (*1978, lives and works in Glasgow) and Toshiya Tsunoda (*1964, lives and works in Yokohama). Their works function at the threshold between sound and image. An installation spread over four spaces at Bielefelder Kunstverein forms the exhibition’s centre, consisting of four works, both recent and newly produced. One of the central questions arises as to how a significant dialogue between seeing and hearing can come about today. Fowler’s and Tsunoda’s collaboration is not just characterised by the technical combination of 16mm film and acoustic systems of reproduction. Much rather, what unites them is a shared interest in displaying simple objects, states and phenomena, which can be observed under shifting conditions.
At Bielefelder Kunstverein their most recent collaboration “Ridges on the Horizontal Plane” (2011), forms the centre of their exhibition. The installation is conceived as a complex system of visual, sonic and spatial experiences. Alongside this collaborative work, Toshiya Tsunoda is showing “The Temple Recording” (2011), which consists of sound recordings, each made on two people’s temples via an air microphone, as they simultaneously observe the same landscape. “Composition for Maguchi Bay” (2011) invites viewers into a mysterious encounter with the low frequencies, which affected Tsunoda in Maguchi itself. The exhibition’s finale comes in the form of Luke Fowler’s collages and latest film, “All Divided Selves” (2011), only completed as recently as October 2011. This is the third of his films dealing with the legacy of the Glasgow-born psychiatrist and writer, R.D. Laing.
Bielefelder Kunstverein
im Waldhof
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D-33602 Bielefeld
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