With this question, Michael Sailstorfe r presented in Barcelona, Sonar, a show that part of the challenge of getting an acoustic signal becomes a sculpture, that is, making visible an audible signal. With film and literary history, the German artist invites you to discover art that will be exposed from 1 February 8 to April 25 at the Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró.
The works of this artist, now exhibited at the prestigious PS1 in New York in 2008, are specially designed experiments to answer a single question: what can be a sculpture? Sonar, the part designed to Espai 13 is the result of an experiment: to break the glass of a window by means of an acoustic signal.
Michael Sailstorfer, often using literary references in his work, mentions Oskar Matzerath, The protagonist of Günter Grass’s novel “The Tin Drum” (1959), the child that stopped growing after three years by choice and breaking glass with the tone of her voice. He also mentions the interesting Blowout Window (1976) by American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, a complex consisting of artistic action shoot at the glass windows of a building in New York.
Sonar (2010) is a very experimental piece of the challenge of getting an acoustic signal becomes a sculpture, or whatever it is, making visible an audible signal. To this end, Sailstorfer has built a wooden room with one window whose glass has been subjected, with powerful speakers and a sound generator positioned within the room, frequency, decibels and the pressure needed to be destroyed . The film of the experiment, the process and the final rupture of the glass is displayed inside the room and is visible through the single window whose glass has been replaced.
Complete exposure of the Espai 13 Video Microphone mouth (2006) that plays an action in which the human skull becomes sounding the same way that an electric guitar feedback with an amplifier.