Seeing sounds, feeling freedom
Maess Anand
Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond
Curated by Inés R. Artola
@
Austrian Cultural Forum
Warsaw, Poland
This exhibition pays a visual tribute to the Warsaw Autumn Festival, one of the most important festivals of contemporary music in Europe.
This is a special tribute, which does not directly allude or treat the sound fact literally by means of concrete examples: the presented pieces more than referring to concrete
and tangible issues, are in the sphere of the intangible, close or even on the border of abstraction, telling us about the sounds and the improvisation as essentials pillars of music.
In the video piece of the Austrian duet Anderwald and Grond (Freedom is Fragments) we enter into a kind of journey in a temporal loop that tells us about some of the essential factors in the musical fact: freedom and improvisation on the part of the interpreter or musician, as well as like time and its fragmentation, exercise of reflection that the composer performs when he sits down to work.
Maess Anand’s work takes a fully visual approach (but not static due to its sinusoidal forms) in which artist reflects on, freely explores and is inspired by the sound fields of Lutoslawski’s music – composer who is very close to her artistic and musical sensibility in which the artist makes a reflection, exploration within the sound field and is inspired in a freeway, in the work of Lutoslawski, composer who is very close to her artistic and musical sensibility.
Maess’s drawings presents a world of sound waves in forms that flow in time, now captured in front of our eyes, inviting us to immerse ourselves in the temporal and sonorous flow of music.
Finally, it is a special tribute also because the artists involved have a direct relationship with music, in their work as artists, in their career and in their research, something that is filtered and we can now see in the essentiality of the pieces presented.
An exhibition that pays a tribute to music, but in silence. Which speaks about freedom, but in fragments. That immerses us in forms to see sounds. Works that make us reflect on the intimate relationships of the visual and musical art, and tell us about our own nature and the concepts of improvisation, poetry and freedom.
