THE INVISIBLE EXHIBITION brought together a set of works that "made the eye turn inwards", proposing the viewer to imagine or conceptualize a space or a situation from a sound vibration.
Sound penetrates our body in an inescapable, unavoidable way, and for this reason, its expansion, or the expansion of its diffusion, has also penetrated all domains of culture. Since the 1920s, recorded sound multiplies access to deferred sound in relation to its original production, thus allowing it to be edited, assembled, coupled and broadcast. In this way, sound has permeated other forms of art and representation , but also all the possibilities of presentation, distribution and consumption of images, especially moving images, as well as other artistic forms and methodologies.
The route that the exhibition proposed began in an area of historical reference, to continue in the post-war period and lead to the use of sound by contemporary artists. In programmatic terms, the foundation of the exhibition was found in the search for three axes of reference in the art of our days: spatiality, narrativity and transversality between the auditory field and the visual field.
On the occasion of this exhibition, the MARCO in Vigo and the José Guerrero Center in Granada have published a catalog that brings together, in addition to the curator's texts on the works and the exhibition concept, a series of essays on the nature of sound in the artistic context. The texts carefully recovered thanks to the generosity of the authors and publishers, allow us to create a small story of the encounter between sound and its physical experience in the artistic environment. The catalog includes a CD with fragments of the pieces on display, many of them available for the first time to the public.
The artists who participated in this exhibition were: Ceal Floyer, Raoul Hausmann, Antoni Muntadas, Bruce Nauman, James Lee Byars, Janet Cardiff, Joan Jonas, Joseph Beuys, Juan Hidalgo, Julião Sarmento, Louise Bourgeois, Luigi Russolo, Luísa Cunha, Martin Creed, Michael Snow, On Kawara, Rodney Graham, Stephen Vitiello, and Vito Acconci.
Collective catalog, 2006.
Texts: Delfim Sardo, Douglas Kahn, José Iges, Olivier Razac, Guy Rosolato, Christophe Kihm, John Cage.
Language: Spanish and English.
Pages: 237
Binding: Soft cover with undercover + CD
Format: 21 x 25.5 cm
