Brigitte Kowanz & Mariano Sardón “Transmissions”
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
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Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery presents Transmissions, an exhibition of new work by noted new media artists Brigitte Kowanz and Mariano Sardón. This exhibition investigates encoded language systems and their formation of a cultural dialogue through contemporary sculptural forms.
Using artificial light as her primary medium, Brigitte Kowanz explores its relationship with space, language and time. Kowanz uses light as a linguistic system, manipulating it through the use of glass, mirrors and metal and shaping it into symbols, codes and text. The ultimate metaphor, light is the very means by which all modes of visual communication are possible.
As a second-generation video sculptor, programming is fundamental to Mariano Sardón’s works. Crafting both the software and hardware himself, he explores the interconnected relationships between technology, science and art. By examining the human body’s relationship to technology, Sardon’s works function as prototype cybernetic interfaces, elucidating the boundaries of the physical and the digital.
Brigitte Kowanz (b. 1957) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Her work was recently included in the seminal exhibition The Light Show at the Hayward Gallery (London, UK). Kowanz has also held solo exhibitions at Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul, 2013), Häusler Contemporary (Munich, 2012) and Museum Ritter (Waldenbuch, 2012).
Mariano Sardón (b. 1968) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he is a professor, researcher and chair of the Electronic Art Degree at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Sardón was awarded the Konex Prize in Visual Art (2012) and obtained the Experimentation Prize in Non-traditional Supports and Video (2008) by the Argentinean Association of Art Critics.
[Image: Brigitte Kowanz “Morse Alphabet” 2012, Fluorescent tube lamps, acrylic glass tubes, lacquer, diameter 94 1/2 in.]
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Schedule
from November 14, 2013 to December 21, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-11-14 from 18:00 to 20:00